Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional speech recounting the nine-year struggle of his union to from the first non-communist government in the Soviet bloc, Walesa gave thanks to Congress and the American people for years of support and words of admiration...
...controversy arose last week when Georgetown Dean of Student Affairs Jack DeGioia forced the student newspaper The Hoya to cancel its Friday issue because it contained an advertisement urging students to support abortion rights...
Liberals also insist that keeping the rich on the entitlement rolls is a political necessity. It is true that many wealthy senior citizens would not support the program if they did not benefit from it. But by bribing the rich for their support, liberals are hurting the very group they want to help--the elderly poor...
...Right now we have 60 percent of the students on strike," said strike organizer Lisa Nelson, a junior. "We have the total support of the faculty, and the graduate students. It is not just the radical left that is doing this...
Nelson did not say how long the strike would last, but added that Amherst students are hoping to gather support from graduate students and other UMass campuses...