Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Incentives. Okun, in addition, favors relatively modest new revenue-sharing aid to states and cities that are now being forced to lay off workers, cut services and raise taxes. In an unusual proposal for a staunch liberal, Nathan suggests special tax incentives to selected industries so that they could speed up investment in such things as oil-pipe plants and coal transport and build storage facilities to hold a year's stockpile of oil as insurance against another Arab embargo...
...life were also the most frustrating for Clarke, for after a three-year English professorship at University College Dublin, he was kicked out for marrying outside the Church. Clarke's marriage went sour all too soon, and his instability--perhaps a byproduct of the tension between his staunch Catholic upbringing and what he called his "little acts of curiosity about myself and others which had been set down by Freud"--led him into exile from Ireland and in and out of institutions for the rest of his life. In 1936, after returning to Ireland, Clarke wrote a poem called...
...want to make a problem." Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "If this great country can't absorb another 30,000 people and help them find a way to make a living, it will be denying its heritage." Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, who is a staunch fighter against illegal aliens but a supporter of legal immigration: "When this country forgets its immigrant heritage and turns its back on the oppressed and homeless, we will indeed have written finis to the American dream...
...flood control is that the drainage of more than 1.2 million acres of the nation's rich farm land below the dam is now insufficient Much of that land has become increasingly saline, reducing agricultural productivity by as much as 50%. For all that, the dam has some staunch defenders. They claim that Egypt eventually will not have to import any fertilizer; plants powered by electricity generated at Aswan* will turn out enough to make the country self-sufficient. The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser...
...students drew up a proposal recommending that the entire group be housed in the Yard next year as part of a "long term equalizing procedure" outlined in the Staunch Report...