Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure communism never returned. The victorious Russians, fresh from overthrowing their Soviet overlords in 1991, realized that the best way to make sure the communists never returned was to quickly privatize all government-owned businesses and housing. This way, common citizens would have private property and an incentive to defend it. How do you privatize a Stalinist economy quickly? Well, the Czechs had been doing it for two years with the "voucher" system, devised by Jan Svejnar, a Czech-American economist. Now, Russia has a lower percentage of its GNP in government hands than does Italy...
...players, battling to be alpha-male. Eli B. Richlin '01 boasts, "Being able to beat my roommate at a game of skill, such as `Red Alert' or `Madden' 98,' reinforces my superiority and my prominence in the pecking order." His roommate, Michael L. O'Byrne '01, can only defend himself by jibing, "[Winning at video games] is a means by which some can compensate for other inadequacies in their lives...
...while the weekly TV ritual inspires camraderie, it also gives rise to a vicious nighttime drama debate. More than one friendship has been tested by the timeless question: which show, "Beverly Hills 90210," "Melrose Place," or "Party of Five," is the best? Individuals are quick to defend their personal pick...
...monsters or ignorant anti-patriots. We are good citizens who value tolerance. I am also proud to say that on the average we are highly intelligent. Atheists have unusually high numbers in academia and science. This is why so many of the more outspoken atheists have joined to defend science and reason in the classroom from creationists, anti-science postmodernists and all those who would conveniently brush aside or suppress scientific findings that they find disagreeable...
...Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" the First Lady said when asked whether the newest news medium needed curbing. "There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots...