Word: defendable
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scary. It was one of the most scary times you could possibly be in. I mean it was like, Oh, God, you know, help me get through it. There was nothing you could do but fire back. But since my weapon jammed, there was nothing I could do to defend myself. I couldn't defend the four other people in my vehicle. It just felt like it was never going...
...Yeah, well, I don't really know how you could train someone for an ambush. I guess it was just more, Defend yourself, get out of there alive...
...children and their country. Both see their jobs as their duty. Both pray each time they head out on a new mission. "They have their way of fighting, and we have our way of fighting," says Ahmed, who fingers amber-colored prayer beads as he talks. "Everyone wants to defend his country and his honor." Says Bear: "I want my wife and family to be proud of me because what I am doing is protecting them...
...only Harvard insiders will defend the school’s staunch academic standards. Brian K. Fitzgerald, staff director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education, also explains Harvard’s relatively low economic diversity by its top-of-the-pack standards...
...global trade policies and U.S. foreign policy were adapted in order to prevent further impoverishment of poor countries. I asked Summers what he thought Harvard’s role should be to educate people about the matter, to which he responded that, although he wouldn’t defend every aspect of trade policies, he didn’t “actually think it is a plausible position that U.S. trade policies are a primary reason why people have AIDS in Africa or why there’s poverty in the less developed world. Far and away the greatest...