Word: defending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these defenses, however, contain one implicit assumption: Dukakis shouldn't defend the Massachusetts program on its own merits, because prison furloughs are a bad thing. Even the liberal Perspective chastised Dukakis' stand, saying "It doesn't take an MBA from Harvard to know that giving furloughs to first-degree murderers is a dumb idea...[T]he governor's lack of political acumen on the furlough issue is troubling...
Under the typical curriculum for first-year students, moot court competition is a requirement. The mock trials are administered by upperclassmen who advise the new students on how to write and defend legal arguments...
Dukakis also was faulted in the Harris poll for his response to Bush's offensive. Fifty-six percent agreed with the statement, "He seems not to know how to defend himself against the serious charges Bush has made about him on crime and on being a liberal out of the mainstream of American life...
Broad-based elections for chairman would also serve a useful checking function. Candidates for chairman should have to prove themselves beyond a small base of voters, forcing them to campaign on their views and defend their record to the whole undergraduate community...
...victim of the case is neither Brawley nor the state politicians whom her advisors accused of racism, but the Black community of New York. Because of the negative publicity brought about by the case, Blacks will continue to suffer the effects of a judicial system that never seemed to defend their rights anyway. The confused and frightened 15-year old girl who cried wolf may have set back race relations in the state by several years, but most New Yorkers prefer to place the blame on Sharpton, Maddox and Mason--who knowingly defended the false accusations--rather than on Brawley...