Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firms that orchestrate those waves from special interests often describe themselves as nonideological. But it is inherent in special-interest work that they will time and again be employed to defend the budget deficit against brutal assault at the hands of fiscal responsibility. When in February 1993 President Clinton proposed an energy tax that was hailed by economists and environmentalists, something called the Energy Tax Policy Alliance paid for a fatal multimedia campaign. When he suggested in the same budget plan cutting the business-lunch deduction from 80% to 50%, it was the National Restaurant Association that stirred to action...
...fighting tactics that worked so well for him as a backbencher can look unseemly when they are tried by the Speaker of the House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations. They will now be looking to the Republican Congress...
...issued a harsher threat: missile strikes against strategic targets in Grozny if the Chechens did not disarm. The rebels refused to blink. Said a spokesman: "When the bombing starts, we will first go to our shelters. When it is finished, the command will go out to our forces to defend the city against the Russian attack...
...regards to the Boston Church of Christ, I must defend a body that is unilaterally defamed here at Harvard. I do not believe Pasquale's friend was "taken in" by the church any more than he or she was taken in by Harvard. In the end, every person with whom I or someone else from my church studies the Bible with has to search the scriptures on his or her own and develop personal convictions. Only then is someone prepared to evaluate the evidence and decide to become a member of my church's fellowship. I know this because this...
...Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel. Hubbell, a longtime friend of President and Mrs. Clinton's, is a former law partner of the First Lady's. Sources close to Hubbell's family told Time that it was "cheaper and easier" to settle. Hubbell had already spent $1 million to defend himself against an investigation so exhaustive that even the bank account of his 22-year-old son was examined -- all the way back to the sixth grade. Curiously, despite Starr's involvement, the charges relate to Whitewater only tangentially. Said a source close to the Clintons: "They ((stem from...