Word: defendable
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...they were here, they came up to my room to do the traditional Inspection of the Living Quarters. “It (ahem) always looks like this” I assured them when they inquired about the relative cleanliness. Before I had to spend too much time trying to defend this outrageous claim, my roommate Dave came home. He had that dazed computer-science-owns-my-soul look to him, but he was kind enough to sit down and chat with us for a while...
...business deals of the past were underhanded, undoing them is a tricky task virtually without precedent in Central and Eastern Europe. A full-scale reversal of past privatizations would likely give rise to a host of legal challenges that could swamp the government. Pinchuk has said he plans to defend his businesses, which include a huge Soviet-era pipe plant, four national TV stations, Kryvorizhstal and many others. Reprivatization could potentially scare away foreign investors, too, and, depending on which deals go under the microscope, may even hurt some Yushchenko supporters who benefited from previous privatizations, such as Petro Poroshenko...
...fund the program to raising the retirement age. But that doesn't help members of his party answer the pointed questions at those town halls-events which one senior Republican House aide said in some cases were "horrific." Because the President will not pick a route, members have to defend all possible choices. "They can't go home and defend 17 different opinions," says a senior Congressional Republican staffer worried about the next Congressional recess in two weeks. Based on the President's strategy, they're going to have...
...reason that Harvard has not been able to sweep the Princeton-Penn road trip since 1985. This year will be no less challenging than those in the past; despite the fact that the Ivy title has already been locked up by Penn, both proud programs will be ready to defend their home courts and their pride against the Crimson...
...agree on the European Union's plan to lift its embargo on supplying defense technology to China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Bush wants the embargo to stay, lest European goods one day be used against U.S. forces, who are pledged to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack by China. Chirac, by contrast, said that the embargo "is no longer justified and has to be lifted...