Word: defender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its flaws, legal scholars defend the adversary system. Notes a law school dean: "You have to compare it to alternatives. The adversary system works better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle...
...entitled to rent a Yale facility as a Yale student, and I am going to defend his right to that," Chauncey added...
John Phillips, a member of the student Coaliation Against the Hike, said Monday the University should make public its full budget and record of yearly expenditures rather than defend the increase as a response to inflation...
...Begin slowly started massaging the pectoral muscles on the left side of his chest. It was a nervous habit that betrayed the anxiety of a former heart-attack victim enduring new stress. In the wake of Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon, Begin had gone to Washington to defend his belligerent policies, and he had found little support in the White House. At one point, in what Begin later called "difficult days," President Carter tried to summarize the state of disagreement in concrete terms. Begin protested gently that the President was "putting everything negatively." Carter pursed his lips...
Thus, as Congress recessed last week for a ten-day vacation, Democratic leaders were confident that they had no chance of losing their 68-to-32 Senate majority in favor of the Panama Canal treaties. The first treaty, giving the U.S. the right to defend the canal's neutrality after it is ceded to Panama, was ratified two weeks ago. The second treaty, turning over the canal to Panama by the year 2000, will be voted on no later than April 26, and perhaps as early as April...