Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tauzin claimed the compromise reached on fuel economy for SUVs would reduce the amount of gasoline used by 5 billion gallons over the next six years; Democrats called it "a lost opportunity" to do a whole lot more. But Tauzin, from oil-rich Louisiana, is one of Bush's staunchest fellow believers in production, production, production, and Dingell, well, he's from Detroit. Auto town...
...organization that contributes $25 million a year to British charities but remains preoccupied with refuting rumors about trouser length could use some professional help. Enter Dewar. While not a Mason himself, he has quickly been transformed into his new clients' staunchest defender. To questions about the UGL's refusal to admit women he responds, "In a sophisticated, grown-up democracy, if men want to do things on their own, that's totally natural." Dewar is planning a Freemasonry in the Community Week that will involve charitable events across England and Wales in June 2002. He is redesigning...
...doesn't bother other burakumin that Nonaka doesn't want to be a poster-boy for their cause. After all, they haven't been his staunchest supporters, either. Burakumin have traditionally backed socialist and communist parties, while the conservative Nonaka staked his early career on chipping away at the communists' grip on power in Kyoto. "If he becomes Prime Minister," says Kanto, "it won't really change much for us. It would be more difficult for him to do things for us, because at the top, he would have to deal with too many other issues...
...week's end, there were indications that McCain-Feingold could actually pass in a recognizable form. Even the staunchest opponents seemed to have softened their opposition to the bill's central provision, a ban on the unregulated "soft money" that has flooded the political system over the past decade, nearly half a billion dollars in the 2000 election cycle alone. What may have been a breakthrough came after McCain arranged a meeting with one of his foes--Nickles, the Senate's No. 2 Republican. "Tell the Senator his friends are here," McCain told Nickles' secretary when he arrived. Their discussion...
...usual, even as Americans profess shock and dismay over the latest figures, no one seems to have any idea what to do about the proliferation of guns into our schools. Unexpectedly, however, if you ask for input from the spokespeople of the nation?s staunchest gun-rights and gun-control organizations, there's more unanimity than conflict. Everyone, it seems, is in favor of teaching kids how to deal with problems that come up at school - bullying, fistfights, cliques - without resorting to violence...