Word: bedrock
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...antitobacco folk, aware of this bedrock belief, try to play up the harm smokers cause others. Thus the attorneys general seeking billions of dollars in damages from the tobacco companies are claiming that taxpayers have been unfairly made to pay for the treatment of smoking-related illnesses...
...Weld's broad-based support always seemed more a cult of personality than a fissure in the state's Democratic bedrock. The ex-governor's mercurial, foppish air appealed as much to fishers and factory workers as to his former Fly Club friends and Adams House chums...
...something was happening that Iran had never seen before. It was exemplified last week in Fadiyian Islam, one of south Tehran's poorest neighborhoods and a former bedrock of support for Khomeini. Thousands of ecstatic Iranians overflowed into the dusty streets shouting, "Khatami! Khatami! You're the hope!" as they rushed toward a 54-year-old black-turbaned cleric, nearly crushing him as he mounted a podium inside a mosque. In the election campaign that began four weeks ago, Mohammed Khatami was a sensation. Surveys showed his support climbing from 13.9% to 20.2% to 52% on election eve. On Saturday...
...trove uncovered to date tells PIT project leader Susie Osgood that they are excavating in the site's living quarters and midden section. They have found a network of bedrock sluices as well as "goodies" (Simon's word) that include celadon and Swatow pottery, a wok and Chinese coins. "It's a thrill knowing there's something down there that hasn't been touched for hundreds of years, even if it isn't too much," says Simon. "It makes me want to go home and do research." And he does...
...Unless you're elected, you can't do a damn thing for anybody." Those who seek office, he knows, aren't shy about accommodating reality, and the realities have changed rapidly in Britain. Large chunks of the old working class have advanced into the middle class. Union membership, the bedrock Labour constituency, has dropped from 53% in 1980 to 32% in 1994. Many voters who once cast their ballots for Labour on the basis of a tribal instinct to support their similarly situated comrades floated to the Conservatives in the 1980s. But like Clinton, who wooed back the Reagan Democrats...