Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the presidency is held up to an undefined ideal; she bears all America's conflicting notions about women as wives, mothers, lovers, colleagues and friends. A First Lady should be charming but not all fluff, gracious but not a doormat, substantive but not a co-President. She must defend her husband and smile bravely when he says stupid things. She must look great, even fashionable, when a shower and clean clothes would suffice for anyone else; possess perfect children though such critters do not exist in nature; and traipse around the globe in a suit and sensible pumps when...
Similar conflicts have plagued the many middle-income apartments the Trump family operates with minimum publicity in Brooklyn and Queens. In 1973, when the Federal Government charged racial discrimination, Trump hired the notorious Roy Cohn to defend him, then eventually signed a consent decree. No less vexing was the 1983 controversy at the 1,400-apartment Shore Haven Apartments in Brooklyn, where the Trump organization started charging new tenants $40 to $60 a month for garage fees regardless of whether they had cars. One tenant, Viola Salomone, actually acquired a car and parked it in the unlocked and unattended garage...
Many physicians defend the use of Ritalin, citing studies indicating that the drug is generally safe and is effective in about 80% of cases of hyperactive children. Adverse effects are usually limited to temporary appetite loss and insomnia. "Ritalin is not a panacea," says researcher Howard Abikoff of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, "but without medication we'd be up against the wall...
This weekend, the Crimson will defend its national Division I and II national five-man titles at the United States Squash and Racquets Amateur (USSRA) tournament in Allston, Massachusetts...
...classes, which are separate from the ordinary high school science curriculum, tend to attract curious students and science buffs. Still, it is often an uphill battle to disabuse kids of fallacies that have become ingrained even by age 17. "You want to defend your old misconceptions, but you can't," says Matthew Liebman, a STAR student at Massachusetts' Framingham North High School. Despite the difficulties, preliminary studies by Shapiro's team suggest that STAR students have a better grasp of basic scientific concepts and mathematics than students in ordinary courses. "We're definitely making headway and in directions we hadn...