Word: support
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Care of the total person involves not just professional help, but support from friends and family. Mucci found that men who were given their diagnosis in the presence of their families were less likely to kill themselves than those who bore the news alone. Having a social support network may not take the cancer away, but it could help ease the anxiety of learning to live with...
Young’s proposal to create a middle school was met with noncommittal support from others present in the meeting...
...Gore’s speech, University President Drew G. Faust had boldly announced a new plan to reduce the university’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2016. While the Office of Sustainability, the new Resource Efficiency Program, and the larger Harvard community enthusiastically declared their support to meet these sustainable goals, Harvard as a research university and educational institution has failed to establish a comprehensive initiative dedicated to tackling the climate crisis and developing renewable energy technology. If Harvard wants to emerge as a leading green research and policy hotspot, it must take bold steps...
Young advocated accelerating the improvement of under-performing groups while continuing to support white and Asian students, as well as expanding the student body to close the achievement gap. Currently, eight of the 11 K-8 public schools in Cambridge have fewer than 400 students...
...plays out. Obama backed Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in Manhattan when it was announced last November, saying, "I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice." Obama has made no statement in support of Holder since word leaked last week that the KSM trial would not be held in Manhattan, and White House officials have since defended civilian trials, but not Holder himself. Says a senior Administration official: "We're all trying figure out what the correct option is, and then...