Word: defendes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tolerant, but this self-conception simply is not very realistic. We have all grown up in the same world, which tries to to teach us very intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
Less than a year ago, enraged aldermen barged into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and snatched from a wall a portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington in lacy lingerie. Last week the institute was defending another inflammatory exhibit, a work by Scott Tyler, self-proclaimed "supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A.," titled What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? Its key component: an American flag stretched out on the floor. The institute claimed that Old Glory was positioned so viewers would not be forced to walk on it. But Joseph Morris...
...trading houses have poured $132 million into Australian beef operations, more than twice their U.S. investment so far. That trend has prompted mixed feelings. Last month Australian beef producers called for government restrictions on further Japanese investment, but labor unions, whose members have benefited from increased employment, rose to defend...
...need to expose them for what they are," said Kathy Lawrence, a member of the Coalition to Defend Abortion Rights (CDAR)--a Boston group that sponsored the demonstration...
North's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, claims that his client cannot adequately defend himself without relying on certain classified information--information that the intelligence community, represented by Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, has been unwilling to divulge...