Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure in 1903. Sensibly, Ford is willing to yield outright domination of the canal, but the move would be gradual and not completed until the next century (TIME, April 26). Even then, according to the Ford-Kissinger position, the U.S. would retain passage rights, share operational duties, and help defend the canal...
Friedman himself does not defend the results. Says he: "It's absurd to talk about Chile as if it is an important test of my ideas. I don't even know if they have been carrying out my policies." His colleague Arnold Harberger complains that the Chileans have in fact been violating a prime tenet of Friedmanism: that a nation's money supply should expand at a steady but moderate pace. The Chilean money supply jumped 27.5% in this year's first quarter alone. The Chicago Boys retort that they have cut down as rapidly...
Representatives of several minority organizations, including the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Committee to Defend Sherman Holcombe, addressed the crowd, which at times more resembled that of an Esplanade concert than a controversial rally...
...There are probably people in the State Department who felt this sort of program would be beneficial if the U.S. drops permanent ties with Taiwan--then Taiwan won't be left out in the cold militarily and will be able to defend itself," Tokar said...
...other public servants. "It is amazing how quickly the atmosphere of the 1950s can return," mused Fosdick. "All of a sudden, here I am, answering call after call from the press, asking if I or anyone else on the staff is a Communist. And here we are trying to defend ourselves. But it's not up to us to disprove these charges. It's up to Rockefeller to substantiate them. This does not raise personal problems for me. It raises a problem for Nelson Rockefeller." Indeed it does...