Word: defenders
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...Andorsky points out, I could defend the station by any of three venues: jobs, science, or idealism. Though he proceeds to find flaws in each of these arguments, his analysis is far from convincing. Completely sidestepping the issue of high-technology jobs, he asserts that the well-being of 13,000 working men and women will not directly benefit the vague entity he calls "the economy" or, alternatively, the "American people." That leads me naturally to the question: who, then, are the "American people...
...getting good representation right now," says one veteran Harvard employee who has been active in the union. Adds a former union official, "254, for some reason, refuses to defend the people it represents...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich scrambled to defend his wife's job as a consultant for a firm recruiting business for an Israeli free-trade zone. Turns out Gingrich has been promoting the business park to government officials in Israel. The Speaker maintains there is no conflict of interest and complained about being "smeared" by "tax and spend liberals" who detest his conservative ideas. "Why are wives being brought into this?" he asked. "It seems to me, since no taxpayer funds are involved, and it's an entirely private business, she ought to be let alone...
...situation in the Cambridge "Tenants" Union is so bad that its "tenant leaders" have called it "antitenant" to work both to defend their homes. They have called it "anti-tenant" to defend tenants of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. They have called it "anti-ten-ant" to defend rent control tenants who lacked condominium eviction rights...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich scrambled to defend his wife's job as a consultant for a firm recruiting business for an Israeli free-trade zone. Turns out Gingrich has been promoting the business park to government officials in Israel. The Speaker maintains there is no conflict of interest and complained about being "smeared" by "tax and spend liberals" who detest his conservative ideas. "Why are wives being brought into this?" he asked. "It seems to me, since no taxpayer funds are involved, and it's an entirely private business, she ought to be let alone...