Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting, students asked Wilson to assurethem that the new Radcliffe Institute for AdvancedStudy would publicly back their most importantgoals--a women's center, a Women's StudiesDepartment, greater support for rape survivors andgender parity among tenured Faculty...
...their credit, HRDC's efforts have won support from aspiring directors and producers whose shows were actually rejected from the Mainstage...
...avoided blaming weapons in favor of blaming the culture, except McCain, who flicked at the gun problem in a joint letter with Democrats asking for a White House summit on the entertainment industry. Texas Governor George W. Bush found himself doing another waffle. Responding to Littleton, he said he supported background checks for people buying weapons at Texas gun shows or flea markets, but a bill to that effect had just died in committee without his support. Asked if he planned to revive it, he said no because it was "flawed." Then the candidate of small government said maybe Congress...
Mild-mannered DENNY HASTERT was never going to be like his outspoken predecessor NEWT GINGRICH. But last week, in the House's first big vote since impeachment--on a resolution to support the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia--Hastert's leadership was nonexistent. At a meeting with other lawmakers in the White House the morning before the vote, Hastert told PRESIDENT CLINTON that enough Republicans would vote yes on the resolution to ensure its passage. Just hours before the vote, Hastert's chief of staff, SCOTT PALMER, advised the Democrats' chief tallyman, Representative DAVID BONIOR, that about 90 Republicans would...
...help them develop good judgment in picking their way through the minefields in today's society. We need to stop treating them as miniature adults. It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all. But parents need the support of the entire community. They need leaders and business owners to help them enforce the protections already in place, from theaters turning away kids from adult-rated movies to networks promoting the V chip. Parents need the community to come up with new protections, especially on the Internet...