Word: defending
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...other end of the court, the women's basketball team will try to replace four of its top seven players from a year ago. The Crimson is out to defend its Ivy League title, and will get help from Liz Resnick of Short Hills, N.J., Heather Harris of Concord, Mass. and Maura Healey of Hampton Falls...
Intricate court reasoning can be hard to defend in a 30-second television commercial, however, and Bird has scarcely tried. On Labor Day weekend, with seven death-penalty cases coming up for argument before her court, she began airing a $250,000 series of campaign commercials in which capital punishment is never mentioned. Instead, in language she wrote herself, she intones from a setting that resembles a law office, "Judges with a backbone are a California tradition worth keeping." An admirable sentiment but one unlikely to disarm her opponents...
Back in Washington both the Air Force, with its Thunderbirds flying team, and the Navy, with its Blue Angels, were quick to assert that a Ramstein-type catastrophe could not happen in the U.S. and to defend such demonstration flights. "I don't know that the risk is too high," said Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. "We have crashes in training every day." In all, 22 Blue Angels have been killed in crashes since 1946, and 19 Thunderbirds since 1953. But with thousands of air shows since World War II, no spectators have died in accidents involving military teams...
...other end of the court, the women's basketball team will try to replace four of its top seven players from a year ago. The Crimson is out to defend its Ivy League title, and will get help from Liz Resnick of Short Hills, N.J., Heather Harris of Concord, Mass., and Maura Healey of Hampton Falls...
Locke, who volunteered his services to defend Laub, said he was contemplating a suit against Harvard because he believed his client was punished more severely than usual...