Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winthrop House senior ALEX DEJESUS, defending champion in the men's 140-160-lb, division, said he has done nothing to train for his upcoming title defense, but added, "It's a lot of fun. I guess I'll go out there and defend it. Sure...
Saudi Arabia needs the aircraft to defend its oilfields, which would be a "great prize" to the Soviet Union. Kojm said Yamani told the FPA members. Security for the visit was "pretty tight." Kojm said, adding, that Secret Servicemen and New York policeman guarded Yamani
...Good News Bible, a.k.a. Today's English Version (1976, American Bible Society, 12 million sold, $4). Even the experts do not agree on whether the Good News is a "real" translation or a paraphrase, but generally scholars defend its faithfulness to the original. This Bible's really notable achievements are its simple vocabulary and an attempt at everyday idiom (I Corinthians 13: "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell"). A better choice...
Firearms have achieved in the U.S. a strange sort of inevitability-the nation's gun-ridden frontier heritage getting smokily mingled now with a terror of accelerating criminal violence and a sense that as the social contract tatters, the good guys must have their guns to defend themselves against the rising tribes of bad guys. It is very hard to persuade the good guys that all those guns in their hands wind up doing more lethal harm to their own kind than to the animals they fear; that good guys sometimes get drunk and shoot other good guys...
Clifton C. Garvin Jr., 60. Last year the Business Roundtable tapped the folksy but forceful head of Exxon to replace Thomas Murphy as its chairman and chief public spokesman. That was a surprising move, considering the unpopularity of oil companies, but Garvin had long since proved his ability to defend business. In the summer of 1979, even as Americans were stuck in gasoline lines across the country, he appeared on the Phil Donahue television show and calmly argued that the shortage was not contrived. A chemical engineer and an Exxon man for 34 years, Garvin believes that energy price controls...