Word: defending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington last week, city executives drafted a resolution condemning the Reagan Administration's antidrug efforts as ill conceived and poorly executed. When Attorney General Edwin Meese appeared before the group to defend the Administration's record, the mayors were not impressed. "All you're doing is putting a lot of fingers in the dike that is about to collapse and drown us in the trenches," fumed Mayor Joseph Daddona of Allentown...
BEETLEJUICE. Spook spouses defend their home against the creeps who just moved in. Director Tim Burton's ectoplasmic comedy sails on a raft of witty special effects and old Harry Belafonte songs...
...Take Back the Night is more than a march by women into streets that are dangerous at night. It is also a forum where women speak to each other, defend our right to control our bodies and demand that we be heard when we say "No" to men. Actions such as Take Back the Night reveal our strength in numbers, provide women with too-infrequent leadership roles and recognize a community which will support us in personal crises involving sexual aggression. They bolster our confidence as women and enable us to approach interaction with men from a position of strength...
...knocked down the dollar against foreign currencies and sent the U.S. stock and bond markets reeling. Combined with an alarming surge in producer prices, the disappointing trade figure for February increased the odds that the Federal Reserve Board might feel compelled to raise interest rates to stabilize prices and defend the dollar. With that, the threat of a downturn -- and another stock-market crisis -- loomed once again...
...wasn't easy trying to defend both of them. Then I realized that there were many people my age who have played hockey against these two and lost. What chance, I reasoned, did I and my team have...