Word: backers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community of about 120,000 civilian, government and military employees and their families has declined by 20,000. One London group of U.S. executives, Tax Equity for Americans Abroad (TEAA), has launched a spirited campaign to mail tea bags to Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, the bill's main backer, after he chastised "jet-setting" Americans abroad and their "mink-swathed" wives. The planners intended this symbolic Washington tea party to be a protest against an unfair tax policy. Complains Robert Worcester, co-chairman of the group: "An awful lot of people have gone back already, and the indecision...
...surprising that Bonnie is a backer of the anti-nuke movement, given her history. She's no novice on the political scene...
This maneuvering threatened to backfire when it became known. At least one treaty backer, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, said he was disgusted with such tactics. The presidency would be damaged, said Packwood, if the "public thinks that the treaties were bought." Senator Paul Laxalt, a Nevada Republican and a leader of the antitreaty forces, complained that his side did not have comparable inducements to offer uncommitted Senators...
...curbed oil production to conserve the enormous reserve that gives the Persian Gulf sheikdom the highest per capita gross national product in the world ($11,510 a year) and pays for its lavish welfare services. He was a strong supporter of Arab unity and a heavy financial backer of Egypt, Jordan and Syria...
Indeed, bartenders in the West are serving up plenty of Coors these days. Bellying against a bar in Los Angeles, Plumber Wallace Wirtzberger declared: "I could care less about the strike or boycott. I'm going to keep drinking Coors." Paul Newman, a frequent backer of liberal causes, disagrees. Says he: "All the good things about Coors are simply outweighed by the company's violations of people's privacy and rights." Newman now drinks Budweiser...