Word: defendents
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...decision, Georgia administrators seemed wary enough: they had asked Dinnan and his colleagues to decide on the cases of Blaubergs and other faculty via secret ballot rather than by more open discussion and disclosure of each member's views, thus making it easier for the university to defend against possible lawsuits. As to the charge of discrimination, Georgia's vice president for academic affairs, Virginia Trotter, formerly Assistant Secretary for Education at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, argues that it is unwarranted. Says she: "I chaired the final review committee, and I feel Blaubergs had every...
Moreover, Carter's pledge to defend the strait is credible and does not mean, as the majority editorial asserts, that "Carter will send in the Navy, the Air Force, and--if necessary--the Army." According to a military analysis by the New York Times, keeping the gulf open would probably involve a naval mine-sweeping operation, and the United States naval force in the Indian Ocean has a "clear margin of superiority" over the Soviet, Iranian and Iraqi forces...
...exceedingly dangerous bet. Rising plant construction costs, along with the March 1979 Three Mile Island debacle, have made dinosaurs of light water reactors. While to many Americans the slogan "No Nukes" signifies the direction to a cleaner and safer life, it is anathema to Westinghouse employees. They must daily defend themselves against environmentalists' charges and justify their livelihood to the increasingly skeptical American public...
Carter is the recognized champion, and he has agreed to defend his title against major challengers, one at a time, in the TV ring, starting with the top contender. To keep his title, must the champ simultaneously confront and overwhelm all the opponents who can be crowded into the ring...
...attended the same law school as Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was a member of the same fraternity as Marcos, and has known Marcos' wife Imelda intimately since childhood. But when he travels from Cambridge to Chicago Monday to address the Council on Foreign Relations, he will not defend Marcos' policy or ask for American support for the military regime. For events have made Benigo S. Aquino Jr. Marcos' most feared and hated enemy, one of the first jailed when the dictator imposed, in 1972, the martial law that still envelops the country...