Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE ARE ABOUT FIFTEEN active residents of Observatory Hill protesting Radcliffe's proposed athletic facility. Yet only two of the opponents will be able to make it to the City Council meeting tonight to defend their position, and as time goes on, the number of residents resisting the project appears to be falling off. Infact, at last week's meeting of the Quality of Life Committee the disgruntled residents went beyond devising strategy tactics for winning the City Council's support and briefly considered ways of keeping the group from fizzling out before the bulldozers arrive...
...fairness to farmers." They wanted presidential support against a court action that enforced a long-ignored 160-acre limitation on farms watered by federal irrigation projects. A thousand more demonstrators protested other issues, including the neutron bomb, inadequate welfare programs and high unemployment. Carter used his speech to defend his record, including his controversial tactics in dealing with the Soviet Union on SALT and in pressuring Israel to reconvene the Geneva conference on the Middle East-policies on which he could point to progress. He once more strongly defended-guess what-his energy program...
...many people. When it became apparent that this concern was about to sink the treaty, Panama's head of state, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, went to Washington, and he and Carter issued a joint "statement of understanding." The "correct interpretation," they said, is that each country shall defend the canal against any aggressive act or other threat to its neutrality and shall make sure that it remains "open, secure and accessible." But the U.S. has no "right of intervention in the internal affairs of Panama." This seems to lead to a certain ambiguity. How can the U.S. defend...
...their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had quit a step ahead of being fired for having the worst prosecutory track record in the state and opened his own office to defend the very people he had formerly prosecuted...
Growing in the Job I respect a guy who can use his hands . . . to defend himself. I've done that all my life . . . Now I'm a real gentleman. Now I take my handkerchief out and slap you across the face...