Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cell at about 3 a.m., put them down, then took off his shoes and pants and entered the cell, nude from the waist down. Joan noticed a "silly little grin" on his face, saw an ice pick in his hand and grabbed the pick in the struggle to defend herself. The prosecution concedes that Alligood had sex on his mind, but it contends that Joan had willingly accepted his advances on previous visits in return for telephone privileges and sandwiches. In this instance, according to Prosecutor William Griffin, Joan had taken the ice pick from Alligood's desk while...
...Prime Minister last week continued to defend her draconian measures by insisting that India had been endangered by a conspiracy. For the first time, she singled out a culprit-the Jana
Philosophers of capitalism defend inequality on two grounds. Economist Friedrich A. Hayek, a Nobel Laureate, argues persuasively that the only alternative to the market's unequal apportionment of rewards is distribution of income on the basis of each person's moral worth?and who could possibly judge that fairly? Pragmatically, many theorists contend that inequality is necessary to reward with high income the initiative that produces economic growth. They add that growth makes the poor if not nearly equal to the rich, at least better off than they would be in a stagnant economy that distributed wealth equally. According...
...INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. In ancient times the opulent and civilized nations found it difficult to defend themselves against the poor and barbarous nations. In modern times the poor and barbarous find it difficult to defend themselves against the opulent and civilized...
...series of criteria that made perfectly good sense-things having to do with education, income levels, population density, and so forth-and New Orieans not only came out near the bottom but also, judging from the Harper's critreris, had very litle to recommend itself. Forced to defend the city, I find my mind funning toward gravestones of white flaky plaster covered by intruding vines, but usually I find it hard to tell people about them...