Word: defender
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...next five years. But to the Navy it is only a recommendation that any following U.S. President can disregard, because following presidents will not be bound by Friday's decision. The end of this five-year time period will coincide with the next presidential election. Conservative Americans who fervently defend U.S. military interests will be able to exert much more pressure than Puerto Ricans, since we are not a part of the U.S. electoral process. Indeed, the will of the Puerto Rican people, supported by a past Congress, has been ignored for the past 18 years. In 1981, Congress gave...
...some donations bring their own problems--when Osama bin Laden's name was in the headlines, Harvard officials had to defend the University's association with his family...
Still, Yasser Arafat, according to a close aide, was "furious" with his wife for embarrassing Clinton. "He didn't appreciate having to defend her to American and European diplomats," says the aide. The Arafats are accustomed to playing a defensive game. Suha, 36, with her bottle-blond tresses, Louis Feraud suits and French fashion magazines, was not the wife most Palestinians had imagined for their austere leader, 70, whose dedication to their liberation is symbolized in his olive drabs, stubbly beard and standard explanation (since abandoned) that he remained a bachelor because he was married to a woman called Palestine...
...Powell fired on Richardson, was released in June after serving time in juvenile facilities for a handgun offense. "Everybody is going to have a different view of Alex," said a Witmer relative, who declined to be identified. "But it's family, so we're going to defend him. It's unconditional love...
...joint ventures with minority- or female-owned businesses. Tucker supports affirmative action, but she complains that Campbell has abused the program by showering lucrative contracts on his wealthy black supporters. She argues that courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend Atlanta's program is futile. Instead, says Tucker, Atlanta should replace its program with one that gives preferences to local companies, as Detroit did in 1994 when it was faced with a similar challenge. Since then, she says, black- and female-headed companies there have obtained about $600 million...