Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skillful and sometimes moving closeup of people adjusting to the idea that they have some control over their own lives. Revolutionary fervor is not lacking; the volunteers, mainly from Nicaragua, fan out across the nation in a truly impressive literacy effort, for example. And there seems a readiness to defend the revolution. When counterrevolutionaries (a particularly simpering, cowardly band of counterrevolutionaries) sneak across the border to murder one literacy brigadista, hundreds of men from the People's Militia volunteer to join the army in the eventually successful manhunt. Nicaraguans may not one and all love their new government, but there...
Politically, however, the stakes were high. Reagan was out to burnish his public image as a stalwart foe of spendthrift Government. His opponents-this time including not only most of the Democrats but some of the congressional Republicans-sought to escape being labeled "budget busters" though still appearing to defend their constituents against cuts that would hurt the poor and disadvantaged. The outcome looked like a standoff. By the weekend Reagan's phenomenal streak of congressional victories had been broken, and he was prepared to settle for spending cuts well below those he had demanded two months...
...keeping Stockman on in face of the immense pressure to fire him are obvious. Getting rid of the number one man in the president's fight to revolutionize economic policy would be an admission that the remarks deserve credence, one that an administration that will soon have to defend its posture in Congress can ill afford to make. With the future of two other cabinet officers uncertain. Reagan, moreover, cannot presently afford to let a third...
Unions in those countries strongly defend the rights of their members, and have not become mere acolytes for the employers. But there is not the spirit of adversarial confrontation that has characterized so much of American labor history. Company officials and employees in Japan and West Germany usually work together successfully to solve their common problems...
...startling to see how quickly it seemed natural." Rogan believes that arguments about women's participation in the Army are now academic. "Women want to serve, and the Army needs the women's contribution if it is to become truly representative of the country it must defend." But the issue may very well depend on whether the volunteer force continues, or the country goes back to the draft...