Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says a senior Spanish diplomat: "You cannot ask us to participate in the defense of the values of the West and not grant us the benefits." In private, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has put it more bluntly: "Why should the Spanish send their soldiers to help defend us when we won't even buy their tomatoes...
...theatrical community was all prepared to take the stand to defend the rights of directors and producers to freely interpret a playwright's work. But fans of massive. First Amendment bloodfests were disappointed when Beckett's agents settled out-of-court for little more than a statement in the "Endgame" program...
...attached to the position. The argument has gathered political momentum because it is linked with the issues of sex and racial discrimination--minorities and women typically occupy jobs which many claim are underpaid in relation to similar jobs commonly held by white males. Yet while advocates of comparable worth defend the theory as a means to greater equality, legislation requiring businesses to adopt a pay scale along such lines would not only have a deleterious effect on businesses throughout the nation but would also seriously impede the workers' quest for wealth and would put yet another hole in the taxpayer...
...think that's absolutely true. I think small newspapers in particular. I know what of I speak because I own one... You can be a small newspaper and wipe out your entire margin of profit in one year, especially if you're a very small newspaper, just trying to defend yourself in the legal process. So you do hesitate, or hang back...
...journalists have a lot of trouble saying what they mean. They have asserted some God-given right not to turn over outtakes, which still evades me... They've asserted a reporter's source privilege in terms that I think could be--I think you can legitimately defend a reporter's source privilege--but in fact the press advanced it in the most incredibly high-toned terms... They've built up a backlog of incredulity amongst judges, where the judge says. "Oh, here comes the newspaper with the hot-air argument again...