Word: defender
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Sophomores Sean Doyle and Margaret Gill both qualified to compete, with Gill hoping to defend the national title she won last year...
...Pfoho is not going to go down without a fight", he said. "We are ready to defend the ideals of democracy against the imperialism of Adams House...
Crowing "I always get two thirds," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney on Wednesday delivered to Al Gore the endorsement he coveted, that of Big Labor. "More than any other national leader," the resolution shoved through by Sweeney read, "Al Gore has used the power of his office to defend the freedom of workers to choose a union, free from interference by their employers." For Gore, who?ll get a stump-thumping grassroots organization that his excitement-deprived campaign sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time...
...government considers that workers don't exist at all, only as tools of production," he said. "The government tries to muffle workers [by creating a government union] designed to defend the interest of the company and not the workers...
...would like to defend George W. Hicks (Column, Oct. 1) and his point of view against the onslaught of intellectualism that has been written against him. To begin, Hicks's article was not only about the woman perched in front of J. August. He wrote about begging, panhandling, those that do it--and he used her as an example. We have all seen her, we have been asked for change by her, and most of us, at some point in time, have found the idea of an obese beggar amusing, if not counterintuitive. Maybe she is fat because she eats...