Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter D. Kinder, vice president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, which opposes the project, said Walter Sullivan and other project backers probably stalled because they saw a lack of support on the council...
...campaign has the support of the community, they don't have to spend big bucks to hire temps," said Lewis. "We don't have to hire anyone and we have hundreds of volunteers...
According to the two Boston College students who are helping to organize the event, Robert W. Vanech and Rafael de la Cierra, the dance is a way for Boston students to provide financial support for the democratic movement in China...
...wishes of Gorbachev, would be an irrefusable offer. But Starkov so far remains in his job. "Everything here is normal," he said late last week. "I put my signature on this week's edition, and I plan to sign the next one too. Mistakes sometimes happen." Starkov retains the support of his staff, some of whom have threatened to go out on strike, while worried readers have been pestering phone-in television shows, inquiring about the fate of the editor...
...also known as the Nimitz Freeway, collapsed when dozens of its concrete vertical support columns shattered during the violent shaking of the earthquake. Steel support rods inside the columns snapped like raw spaghetti under the multimillion-pound weight of the four-lane upper roadway. Some construction experts last week expressed outrage that the steel rods inside the columns had not been reinforced to help them withstand a powerful quake. Said Peter Lehrer, co-chairman of the Lehrer McGovern Bovis construction firm, which managed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island: "There is no excuse for what happened...