Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canal, and American defense of it, would be much better ensured if the treaties are accepted than if they are rejected. Contended General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: "United States military interests in the Panama Canal are in its use, not its ownership. Our capability to defend the Panama Canal will be enhanced through cooperation with the government of Panama...
...order to defend their freedom to continue experimentation the recombinant DNA researchers have been willing to sacrifice the freedom of speech of their fellow scientists. Harvard junior faculty members jeopardized their careers if they objected to the tenured colleagues' research. Ursula Goodenough, associate professor of Biology, dropped out of the controversy, saying, "... I didn't want to lay my head on this particular block ... all of us were feeling very pressured...
...drawn into the situation, sucked into the vortex, whether you want it or not. You will be faced with it sooner or later. The more you as Americans--both personally and collectively-- withdraw into silence, the more the problem will catch you. I advise you to try to defend both the Jews in the Soviet Union and the Palestinians in occupied territories...
Tonight Ali needs no introduction. But most fight fans see Shavers, with his shaved head and bearded face, as another nobody with whom Ali toys around to make easy bucks ($3.5 million for Ali, $300,000 for Shavers) and to satisfy demands that the champ defend his crown...
Church efforts to encourage viewers to be more discriminating in their TV habits can have the same result as that of the action recommended by TV executives who defend today's programming. Says Thomas Dargan, manager of the ABC station in Portland, Ore., who has been barraged with complaints about Soap "There is excellent alternative programming available-including the off button." To commercial TV's complaints about religious censorship, Parker responds, "You have a perfect right to say you don't want this coming into your living room. It's a matter of the public interest...