Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the Redgates' small store is a sign erected more than two years ago, when the BRA first indicated it wanted the North Harvard area for a renewal project. The sign reads: "TO HELL WITH URBAN RENEWAL, IT IS LEGALIZED THEFT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. WE SHALL DEFEND OUR HOMES WITH OUR LIVES...
...beyond that, said Federal Reserve Chairman Martin in an unprecedented press conference, the hike was "an insurance measure" designed to prove "that we are ready to defend and preserve the dollar." The U.S. money managers feared that European speculators, many of whom received dollars for the pounds they were unloading, might be tempted to convert those dollars into other currencies unless the U.S. demonstrated that it intended to keep the dollar stable. The U.S. did just this by raising the discount rate, thus averted possible speculative pressure on the dollar. In so acting, Martin and his governors placed the nation...
Having carefully built his case against federal urban renewal, Anderson pauses a moment to brush away any possibilities of modifying "an inherently bad program," and then launches into his soapbox appeal. For obvious reasons, he doesn't waste much time trying to defend empirically his gospel that "private enterprise can." Such defense as he offers--in the chapter on "The Quality of Housing"--rests on statistics showing that the greatest improvements in the overall quality of city housing between 1950 and 1960 came from the efforts of unaided private builders...
...decision to defend, preserve, and require the Gen Ed course should be made, either at today's Faculty meeting or soon after. Throughout the country colleges are re-evaluating their programs of General Education and looking to Harvard for leadership. If a distribution plan is passed by the Faculty, those colleges will be able to find only one explanation: Gen Ed has been emasculated by the forces of expediency...
...entire history and legend. Founded in 1802 by Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont, a French immigrant who had studied gunpowder-making under Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, the company got its start by selling explosives to a young U.S. that needed them to clear the West and defend itself. It grew huge a century later by supplying 40% of the powder used by the Allies in World...