Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exact total-and Washington could not begin to buy them all. But if the U.S. expressed willingness and made funds available to buy huge amounts, speculators would conclude that the price would stay up, and so they would not sell their dollars. In short, a war chest to defend the dollar, coupled with a strong determination to use it if necessary, would act much like a nuclear deterrent: the more impressive it is, the less likely it will ever need to be used...
...Dyke and Damman defend their committee against skeptics who might point out that there are relatively few Harvard students on the CEC, most of whom do not plan to devote their lives to community organizing. How sincere, then, are the CEC members? What effect do they ultimately have upon the social and economic injustices they are investigating...
Four years ago he surprised the experts by leading the U.S. Equestrian Team to a world championship at Burghley, England, and winning for himself a gold medal. Now Bruce Davidson, 28, cool, aristocratic, and every lean inch a horseman, prepared under a merciless Kentucky sun to defend his title against the best riders in his dangerous and specialized sport...
...group belong those who got rich without much formal education; the welfare and poverty class distinguishes between physically and morally clean and unclean; at all levels of society the most frequently mentioned cause of downward mobility is alcoholism; Americans tend to place themselves in the highest class they can defend on the basis of their material achievements. Concludes one suburbanite: "You can see someone in a Cadillac, and that only tells you what they're aspiring to, not what they...
...preparing on the Mario Jascalevitch murder case. He also admitted to having shown his notes to one of his publisher's editors. Even worse, Farber apparently had concluded his book contract without the knowledge of his superiors at the Times or of the attorneys retained by the paper to defend...