Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's goal is to protect the integrity of academic research. [But] we are also aware that Microsoft needs the information to defend itself," he said...
...surprised if we play a better team all year," Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "You have to defend so many things against this team. You have to defend the dive, the pitch, the quarterback, and they've got an excellent passing attack...
Clinton's survival hangs on the answer, as House and Senate Democrats ponder how much they are willing to risk to defend a President who has again and again abandoned them when the tables were turned. Consider how their fortunes have differed in the six years since Clinton rode into the capital as a new kind of Democrat: the President triumphed in his deals with Republicans to balance the budget, reform welfare and open trade. Cutting his party loose, he launched his own job-approval ratings to gravity-defying heights. Meanwhile, Democrats lost not only their New Deal traditions...
...going over their heads at every opportunity, are not hastening to his rescue now. Californian Henry Waxman, a plausible candidate to support Clinton, summed up the mood: "He's an embarrassment to people in his own party. Even if it's not impeachable, no one wants to defend the President...
Please don't get me wrong. I cannot defend his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He broke one of the most sacred promises a man can make to a woman. My intention is not to defend what the President did, but to defend Bill Clinton...