Word: staunch
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Derwinski, a former Illinois congressman and a staunch anti-communist, led the Coalition of American Nationalities for the bush campaign. Several members of this group resigned after their anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi backgrounds were publicly revealed...
...minimum wage bill currently before the Congress is sponsored by Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D--Cal.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D--Mass.), a staunch labor supporter and the chair of the Senate labor committee. It would increase the wage incrementally for three years, peaking at $4.65 in 1991, and would afterwards peg the minimum wage at half of the national average wage...
...holding educators accountable for school improvement, raising standards and giving parents more freedom to choose the schools their children attend. But he has also made it clear that his chief priority is to make education more accessible to the disadvantaged. He favors increases in student aid and is a staunch advocate of bilingual education. In almost every speech he decries the fact that 25% of the nation's teenagers drop out before completing high school and that 40% of Hispanics still have no diploma by age 25. "Por favor, nios, no dejen la escuela" (Please, children, do not leave school...
...staunch Republican who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Commerce, Peterson, 62, has been a consistent and vociferous critic of the Reagan Administration's economic policies. In 1982, while chairman of the investment banking firm Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb, he co-founded a bipartisan group that warned of the mounting U.S. budget deficit. Still one of the most powerful men on Wall Street, Peterson now heads the Blackstone Group, a smaller investment house specializing in corporate takeovers and leveraged buyouts. His new book, On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future, written with Neil...
...case, the Head of the Charles Regatta Committee and the Metropolitan District Committee maintain a staunch no-drinking policy on the banks and the river. Three hundred police members will be on hand to confiscate or destroy any alcohol...