Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until Schkolnick's complaint was filed in December of 1987, campus activism about the clubs' discrimination was dormant. With that complaint came a new wave of controversy--and a new undergraduate group formed to rally support for Schkolnick and her cause...
Keverian (D-Everett) had taken to the floor and promised to back amendments to make the capital gains increase effective Jan. 1, 1990, instead of retroactive from Jan. l, 1989. He also promised to support an investment tax credit and a capital gains exemption for owner-occupied single-and multi-family homes, up to four families...
Keverian's promise to support the elimination of retroactivity came a day after he told reporters the move would be "silly" because it would cost the state $100 million in new revenue for this deficit-ridden fiscal year...
Earlier, the speaker had promised members he would scale a sales tax increase back to one cent, instead of two cents, in another compromise aimed at getting a majority of the 160-member House to pass some from of tax package and send it to the Senate, where support for higher taxes is stronger than in the House...
Bush was the first to arrive for the two days of shipboard summit talks. But his last-minute summit preparations were interrupted by an attempted coup in the Philippines, which he sought to snuff out by committing U.S. air support to forces loyal to President Corazon Aquino...