Word: staunch
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...lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While in the House, Bailey had backed Reagan on some fiscal and social issues. Edgar, a staunch progressive, had the last word in debate -- and at the ballot box -- when he declared, "A real Democrat would have stood up to President Reagan and said no to those unfair tax policies...
...term Congressman from Cajun country down in the state's southwestern bayou parishes. Moore and Breaux have all but ignored other contenders, like State Senate President Sammy Nunez, choosing instead to turn their fire on each other. Moore is the solid front runner. He has presented himself as a staunch Reagan Republican, appealing to conservative Democrats disillusioned by their party's mismanagement of state affairs. "The people in this state know that the rest of the country is seeing boom times," says Moore. "They are not blaming Reagan. They are blaming the local political system for not preparing the state...
Robertson does not have to think of new ways to be provocative. His assaults on "secular humanists" and the Supreme Court, his oblique allusions to the superiority of "Christians" as he defines them, aroused a backlash even before his announcement. Education Secretary William Bennett, a staunch conservative Reaganaut, condemned some of Robertson's rhetoric as "invidious sectarianism that must be renounced in the strongest terms." People for the American Way, a liberal organization that has fought a guerrilla campaign against the religious right, produced a videotape with a telling sequence in which the preacher claims to have diverted Hurricane Gloria...
Though he has never departed from his ideological passions, Reagan has proved to be consistently pragmatic about avoiding crusades that could forfeit his popular support. He has long preached family values but has not pushed any significant legislation advancing the conservative social agenda into law. He sends staunch messages of support to antiabortion rallies but never appears himself; he makes the right noises about school prayer but does not press for a constitutional amendment to legalize...
Wang's appointment marks an attempt by Deng Xiaoping and other top Communist Party officials to convince Chinese intellectuals that the repression of the Cultural Revolution will not recur. Writers, however, remain skeptical. Despite his advocacy of creative freedom, Wang has proved a staunch supporter of party policy on the arts...