Word: staunch
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...tenants' union has had limited success in representing residents of University apartments. With about 40 highly active members and several hundred who have indicated some support. HTU has managed to foster a greater awareness of tenants' rights. The key stumbling block to further progress has been HRE's staunch refusal to recognize the union as legitimate representative of even some of its tenants. In a recent letter to HTU Coordinator Michael Turk. Zeckhauser stated that "it is the policy of Harvard Real Estate. Inc to respond to specific complaints and suggestions from specific tenants about their individual units and building...
...impossible to believe that this rattled man could be ushering in a new era. His words were self-exculpatory; his demeanor did not convince one of his innocence. It was not the cold recital of available facts some of us had hoped for; but it was not a staunch defense of the record either. It fell between the two stools, defining rather than mitigating disaster. No one watching Nixon's desperation and anguish could avoid the impression that he was no longer in control of events...
Harvard then tightened its staunch 3-2 zone and Fleming recovered a loose ball, drove the length of the court and sank a fall-away six-footer to bring the Crimson within three. Dixon then followed Fleming's efforts with a 13-ft, jumper of his own to cut Cornell's lead...
...tough political battle to emerge as Cambridge's new mayor last week. But for Vellucci there is no time to rest on newly won laurels. A string of social policy challenges await the council's senior member, who in recent years has controlled the crucial swing vote between four staunch conservative Independents and four equally committed members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
...BUSINESS) that if the President's program were presented this week for a single yes or no vote, few legislators would cry yes. Democrats are howling that further reductions in proposed social spending will strike savagely at the poor. Republicans are so horrified by giant deficits that some staunch conservatives are grumbling that planned defense spending ought to be reduced to stem the river of red ink. As Reagan himself noted in the budget message: "The voices of doubt, retreat and rejection are beginning to rise...