Word: defenders
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...capped a frenetic week that reshaped the rosters of many National Basketball Association teams and marked a radical shift in the way team owners spend money. When the music stopped, the owners had agreed to dole out more than $600 million to try to buy themselves a championship. Or defend one: the Chicago Bulls will pay Michael Jordan $30 million for his services next year...
...world's fastest-growing market. Boeing will still benefit as long as it has orders for planes--even if they are built by Chinese workers. Whether Clinton and the Congress intend it or not, the practical effect of their trade policy toward China, at least for now, is to defend the interests of some American shareholders over the interests of some American workers...
Contrary to the doom and gloom prophesied by the traditional pessimists, what I witnessed firsthand during my short stay in the Holy Land revitalized my own hopes for the future. The smiling faces of Israeli children on beaches their parents defend hourly belie the ominous predictions of out-of-touch journalists. Netanyahu's victory was a victory for anyone who has chosen to put their faith in security as the most important stepping stone to lasting peace and sovereignty not just for Israelis, but for all peoples in the Middle East. Netanyahu gives us faith that a new generation...
...office worker who was recruited by the Vipers but declined to join. "They did talk in front of me about how they felt about having their guns. [Nelson] carried on all the time that if the ATF came and tried to take his guns from his house, he would defend himself. But I thought it was all talk...
...celebrating the promising new HIV treatments to be featured in Vancouver next week, but animal-rights activists almost certainly won't be cheering them on. That's because much of AIDS research would be impossible without experiments that animal advocates consider unethical. Their belief, and their willingness to defend it aggressively, has put them on a collision course with many AIDS activists...