Word: defender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for other Swiss banking reforms. One possible target: the absence of requirements for full, consolidated financial statements. Most Swiss banks use evasive but perfectly legal bookkeeping that eliminates disclosures about the performance of parts of their holdings. What remains to be seen is how vigorously the banks will defend themselves against the reform wave and whether their reputation for probity and prudence will survive the fray...
...Dallas into the scientific equivalent of a championship basketball game. The Dallas conference packed in some 7,000 chemists hoping for what society executive director John Crum called "the experience of a lifetime." The crowd was there to hear chemistry's new superstar, B. Stanley Pons, describe and defend the experiment that had catapulted him and British colleague Martin Fleischmann to instant fame only a few weeks earlier. Pons and Fleischmann claim to have produced controlled nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. If Pons, a professor at the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of the University of Southampton...
...ritual is eerily familiar. A public figure under fire for wrongdoing rises to defend himself, proclaiming his honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...
...could defend myself by saying that my ethical failings are somehow not as qualitatively reprehensible as, say, dumping toxic waste for profit. But if the deeds are not equally heinous, the violations of principle are. Either you believe that right supercedes riches...
...committee's move set in motion a series of steps in which Wright can defend himself and the panel must prove with "clear and convincing" evidence that the violations occurred. That is likely ultimately to throw the matter before the full House, where Wright's position as the nation's highest elected Democrat, or even his House seat, could be on the line...