Word: staunch
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...hours after he left the White House, Kemp was huddling with an unusual group of 30 conservative movers and shakers in a hired conference room in a building near Capitol Hill. A surprising participant: Lyn Nofziger, until last January chief White House political adviser and a staunch Reagan loyalist. There, too, were three other estranged Administration officials: former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, former Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture and former Director of Policy Development Martin Anderson. Direct-Mail Mogul Richard Viguerie, publisher of the New Right Conservative Digest, and Conservative Caucus President Howard Phillips were probably the most...
Shultz will face close questioning by California Democrat Alan Cranston, a staunch supporter of Israel, on the operations of the Bechtel Group, the international engineering and construction corporation that the Secretary-designate has helped run for eight years at a six-figure salary. The Senator is particularly interested in charges that Bechtel, which has multimillion-dollar contracts with Saudi Arabia, forced its subcontractors to observe the Arab boycott of Israel. But even Cranston predicted that the hearings will be shorter than the five days devoted to Haig's confirmation 18 months...
...Argentines, the President offered the Prime Minister his support when the two met for 90 minutes on Friday before the start of the Versailles summit conference. On leaving the meeting, Thatcher said that "the United States is firmly on our side, and we are grateful to them for being staunch allies...
...minds of tenant activists, however, perhaps HRE's most grievous offense is its staunch refusal to recognize the existence and legitimacy of the Harvard Tenants Union, now about a year-and-a-half old. "They seem to hope we go away," Turk said shortly after the union's first anniversary...
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...