Word: backer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connecticut law is a marked contrast to May's congressional veto of a Federal Trade Commission rule that would have required used car dealers to list known major defects on cars they sell. Says Ernest Abate, the speaker of the Connecticut house of representatives and a backer of the bill: "I wanted the legislature to be more protective of consumer interests at a time when the Federal Government was moving away from regulation...
...America. His plays, criticism and topical articles appear regularly, and he recently wrote about the World Cup soccer matches for Barcelona's La Vanguardia. Once a supporter of Castro's Cuba, Vargas Llosa now campaigns against totalitarian regimes of the left and the right. He is a backer of Poland's Solidarity movement and a former president of the P.E.N. club, the international writers' organization that monitors the restriction of free expression. This is the stuff that puts writers on the Nobel Prize track...
Iran has indeed received support from practically every direction. Among its backers have been the Soviet Union, which is trying to form a long-term friendship with Tehran; Syria, which regards Iraq as an implacable enemy; and, in the early days of the war, the Palestine Liberation Organization, which felt obliged to follow Syrian policy because of the strong Syrian role in Lebanon. An unlikely backer of the Tehran regime has been Israel, which regards Iraq as a more dangerous threat than Iran and thereby follows the ancient adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Last week Israeli...
MINNESOTA. The only retiring Midwestern Republican who faced a clear possibility of defeat this year, Albert Quie, 58, a staunch but low-key Reagan backer, has seen Minnesota's budget drop from a $292 million surplus in 1979 to a deficit that is expected to reach $800 million by summer. This happened even though Quie, who campaigned on a promise to cut taxes in a state many thought was recession-proof, was eventually forced to reverse himself and raise them as the economy faltered. Quie's popularity plunged. As his campaign manager quaintly put it, the Governor decided...
...taking a bath, going to bed), you may be sure that Stacy Keach, as the father figure she has for some reason taken it into her head to seduce, will be around to catch a tantalizing glimpse of this or that secondary sexual characteristic. Since Zadora is the principal backer's wife, and this is nothing if not a vanity production, poor Keach is required at these moments to go slack-jawed with awe and wonder. As her looks may most charitably be described as an acquired taste, his persuasiveness in these scenes cannot be praised too highly. This...