Word: fends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon lawyers have battled the commandos' allegations for two years. The CIA cited an 1875 Supreme Court case that it has used successfully to fend off past suits by agents who claimed to have been cheated. In that case, a Civil War spy was denied back pay because the court ruled it had no jurisdiction to enforce secret contracts for espionage. Retired Major General John Singlaub, who ran the SOG program from 1966 to 1968, gives another defense. He insists that the South Vietnamese government, not the U.S., decided which commandos should be taken off the lists...
...convince the world--with only modest success--that asteroids like this one represent a clear and present danger. To meet that threat, they have proposed a network of computer-monitored telescopes (equipped with sensitive electronic cameras) that would seek out threatening asteroids or comets in plenty of time to fend them off with appropriately designed long-range missiles...
...operation was a success, how come the patient is dying? The Administration may have called it a "humanitarian" mission, but this was old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy: send in the Marines, depose a government you don't like, install a friendlier one and leave the natives to fend for themselves. Any impulse of Clinton policymakers to actually lift Haiti out of political, social and economic destitution--what is widely derided as "nation building"--was fatally tainted by the American fiasco in Somalia. "We achieved the objectives we aimed for," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, "so from our point of view...
...make it out of the MAC by 7:15 p.m. or if your seminar leader keeps you late, you have to fend for yourself. With the recent opening of Loker Commons, that problem becomes somewhat lessened, but the issue of money is still there. Next semester, every student will have $100, including guest meal fees, to spend at the complex, but once that reserve is depleted, we might as well go somewhere else--why go to Loker instead of Tommy's? Also, the pizza place at Loker Commons is only open until midnight. Picture this familiar scene: You've just...
...FANTASY THAT PRIVATE CHARITIES will take up the slack left by federal cutbacks in programs for the poor and elderly [SOCIETY, Dec. 4]. Newt Gingrich's campaign to lower taxes for the wealthy will result in even greater burdens being imposed on those least able to fend for themselves. Consider New Hampshire. Despite being among the 10 wealthiest states according to income and having a relatively low overall tax burden, the state also ranks dead last among all states in per-capita charitable giving. Even more telling is that 16% of New Hampshire families who report adjusted gross income...