Word: defended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from concerned alumni to worried parents to prospective high school seniors that, contrary to rumor, the stellar cast of teachers is available to every student. In view of this fact, and the current alarm, nationwide, over the inferior quality of American teaching. I wonder how the Government Department can defend its vote not to promote one of its finest teachers...
...commander of Colorado's Fort Carson Army post: "The quality we're seeing is going up at an astounding rate. The new kids are easy to train. They have a better sense that the world is a pretty dangerous place and that somebody's got to defend all those things that we believe in." The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over. "We won't take a man if he has a parking ticket outstanding," said Nashville Navy Recruiter Tony Thomas. Indeed, the services frown...
...inflation. As a result, the value of the franc began to fall, plunging 34% against the dollar during the past two years. That drop made France's imports more costly and thus worsened its inflation, now running at 9%. The French have gone heavily into debt trying to defend the franc in the currency markets, and last week they had to ask the European Community for a $4 billion loan...
...Watergate "dirty tricksters" as Howard Hunt, who doctored State Department cables, and Donald Segretti, who used Edmund Muskie's stolen campaign stationery to disseminate malicious falsehoods about other Democratic candidates. "In fact, you could say that Nixon was a sort of forger," muses Magnuson. "In his efforts to defend his beleaguered Administration, he altered the transcripts of his office tapes, a fact that only became clear when the tapes themselves were released." Magnuson's present pace of cover writing is not so frenetic as it was in the Watergate days. But even at the current rate, the editors...
...Schlichter, ran up a reported six-figure tab with bookies and recently turned to the FBI for protection. Going 0-8-1 on the field last year in his first N.F.L. season, Kush is 0-9 this year in the Supreme Court, which decided that he would have to defend himself against charges stemming from a sideline assault case brought by a former punter at Arizona State. That incident four seasons ago ended Rush's prosperous 22-year college coaching career. Probably Elway did not crave Kush's style of discipline...