Word: defended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill, the Administration's policy in Central America was also under fire, mostly from Democrats but also from some Republicans. The President won an uneasy cease-fire by disclosing that he would go before a joint session of Congress this week in a national TV address to defend his strategy in the troubled region...
Advocates of capital punishment now have a new responsibility to defend this or any other method of execution as humane in light of what happened in Alabama. That the state had tested the electric chair is of comparatively little importance. How does one "test" an electric chair in any case? As with any complex piece of machinery, the only real "test" is actual...
...smarter Democratic appeal would tackle the efficiency of Reaganomics head-on. With the GNP drooping, industrial plant closings way up. Middle America in shambles and nary a sign of the much-heralded supply side investment boom, it is difficult if not impossible to defend the Republican economic initiatives as leading to overall economic health. A more centrist appeal--challenging Reaganomics on what proponents consider its own merits--would doubtless capture many of those voters more distressed by economic listlessness than by inequity...
...none of the existing Western weapons should be given equal treatment with Soviet SS-20s on the agenda of the INF negotiations. The British and French forces in particular should be left aside entirely. Mostly submarine-based, less accurate and less destructive, they have as their prime purpose to defend Britain and France alone, not the Western alliance as a whole. The U.S. cannot bargain with the independent deterrents of its sovereign allies in a bilateral Soviet-American negotiation. The Soviets, of course, know that. The real reason that they are pressing the issue is that they hope to play...
Watson takes to the the 10-meter platform today to defend his U.S. indoor title in the preliminaries of that event. Louganis, who captured the world title this summer, will again be the diver to beat...