Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CMAC is a way to bring the races together, so that they can enjoy and appreciate each other's culture," says City Councilor Saundra Graham, a staunch backer of the center. Adds the center's director, David Kronberg: "We're presenting different forms of culture and we're bringing different racial and ethnic groups together...
...government announced early yesterday morning that the 69 year old Andropov, "staunch fighter for the ideals of communism and for peace," had died 22 hours earlier...
...second term would entail major changes in personnel as well as policy, and for a President as heavily dependent on his staff as Reagan is, the reshuffle would be extremely consequential. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, a staunch conservative, is already leaving the White House; Reagan formally nominated him last week to be Attorney General in the wake of the resignation of William French Smith, once the President's personal lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker...
...fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Three weeks earlier, Legislative Liaison Kenneth Duberstein quit to join a private lobbying firm. The departure of these two "pragmatists" as well as the expected resignation early next year of Budget Director David Stockman, will leave Baker with only two staunch allies in the White House, Michael Deaver and Richard Darman. That prospect, along with the fatigue of three years in a very demanding job, may be the reason that one of Reagan's steadiest players is flirting with the idea of becoming a free agent...
...letters were not an admission by the party-controlled press that Czechoslovakia, a staunch Moscow ally, opposes the new Soviet missiles. But in their combination of idealism and bitter frustration over the arms race, they revealed that some East Europeans share the anxiety of many of their Western neighbors over the failure of the superpowers to agree on curbs for medium-range nuclear weapons...