Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Fulbright is widely respected for his fairness in foreign policy, the most interesting and disappointing story he tells is about how he could not support Civil Rights legislation in the 1940s. The senator writes that he wanted to support the legislation but adds that he had to come out against it in public because he feared losing an election to Arkansas Gov. Homer Adkins. In what amounts to a poor rationalization of his actions, Fulbright defends his statement that Blacks did not deserve to vote and his opposition to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board...
...accused the chairman of deciding secretly two weeks ago that Tower had to go and then browbeating his Democratic colleagues into a party-line vote. But that claim underplayed the qualms of some Republican Senators. John Warner, the ranking G.O.P. member on the committee, decided in the end to support Tower for two reasons: Bush wanted him for the job, and Warner wanted to secure his own political future...
...Michael Boskin, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, testified, "I do not yet see a serious increase in the underlying inflation rate." Boskin edged a bit closer to the Fed chairman by adding that if prices do begin soaring, the Administration will "take quick action" and "support a policy that avoids an acceleration of inflation...
...candidate on the ballot. Gorbachev made a hasty trip to the region, where he exhorted citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...
...followed. At issue is the problem of homophobia, both at Mather and at Harvard as a whole. I am not pointing fingers and calling everyone a homophobe; that would be wrong, and the problem is more farreaching than that. Plenty of people at Mather, straight people, have shown their support. The pink triangles in the courtyard windows were a very moving example of that support by straight friends. But the problem is one of a pervading atmosphere at the University, which can only be changed by a general consciousness-raising...