Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish now that I had gotten their names. I wish I had screamed at them. They were just as bad as the man who chased me. But I was afraid to confront them. Their attack was more subtle, more dehumanizing, because it left me unable to defend myself...
...TIME's cover story on Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, noted that in moving Manila toward eventual independence, the U.S. was being "far from purely benevolent": it would mean not only unloading a heavy financial liability but a strategic responsibility that was "impossible to defend...
...convince the skeptical majority of his Executive Branch audience that they should not give up too soon on support for the unobstructed democratic process in the Philippines. The normally terse Senator spoke movingly of brave souls like an ordinary Filipino housewife who confronted armed thugs in order to defend her ballot. He urged the White House not to resign itself to a Marcos victory too quickly...
...burden can be lessened as an inadvertent consequence of the medical industry's self-aggrandizement, so be it. Some reasonable limitation of court settlements against doctors (the nationwide average rose from $5,000 to $330,000 between 1970 and 1985) is and absolute prerequisite if the public is to defend itself from the vicious malpractice cycle--a cycle that ends up benefiting middle-man lawyers and insurance companies if anyone...
...editors of Sports Illustrated defend the issue by claiming that they merely provide a service by previewing the latest in women's swimwear. Charitable advertising for those bathingsuit manufacturers, eh? It has never been clear which women would wear the featured swimsuits. Swimmers, perhaps...