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...recently said in The New York Times, "is not going to become an oppressed citizenry." The National Rifle Association constantly employs this rhetoric when it fights restrictions on access to weapons. Stevens' Patrick Henryesque oratory is appealing, but are government agents today so threatening that we need Uzis to fend them...
...sent off to relatives so that the family can save money. Next his mother enters a tuberculosis sanatorium. Finally his father hits the road selling watches -- the only job he can get in the Depression. That leaves Aaron, who hides his survivor's wit under a deadpan demeanor, to fend for himself in the shabby hotel where the declassed Kurlanders have washed...
...even the insidest insiders resist the obvious implication that they use networking--rather than the strength of their arguments--to persuade legislators. One Senate committee has frustrated past efforts by the vitamin industry to fend off increased federal regulations. So one industry association hired a former employee of the committee chair to press its case...
...wife and child in Fujian Province, where fellow villagers paid $20,000 to nameless smugglers to transport him to America. The plan was for him to make a fortune for all of his investors. Instead, once he arrived in New York, the snakeheads disappeared and he was left to fend for himself. He has no documents to certify his stay here. He lives in a one-room basement apartment with five other men, sleeping on three-tiered bunk beds. Anyone who can't pay the $100 rent each month is kicked out. He says he has only one goal...
...often do the same thing, laying their eggs close enough together for maximum mutual protection, yet far enough apart so that they can move easily past their neighbors. Inside the nests, Horner found lots of tiny eggshell fragments. If the baby maiasaurs had simply hatched and wandered off to fend for themselves, he reasoned, the shells would simply be broken; the fact that they were thoroughly smashed convinced him that the babies stayed around to be cared for and fed. He also believes -- somewhat controversially -- that the babies' oversize eyes and snub noses would have appeared "cute" to their parents...