Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living close to it, with homemade entertainments and being with one another doing good work on good land? Ed Sidey thinks they can, if there is just enough money to keep people apace of the world in education and health care, if the economic base is adequate to support quality churches, parks and streets. The fundamental values still celebrated along Greenfield's streets are as sound as ever, their loss in cities the cause of human devastation, something acknowledged now by most experts...
Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...
...quests like Szymczak's: mothers anxiously seeking children they gave up at birth, children hunting for their biological parents. Desperate, obsessive, their searches have, over the past two decades, ceased to be merely a matter of individual effort and have become a national movement. There are more than 450 support groups for searchers. Many conduct meetings modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, in which new participants rise with the passion of the converted and state their mission: "I'm Sarah, and I'm looking for my daughter born...
...leaders denounced the idea as a giveaway to Bush's rich friends and thundered about a "defining issue" -- one on which Democrats should hold fast to demonstrate just what the difference is between their party and the Republicans. For Bush to prevail in the House, even assuming total G.O.P. support, he needed no fewer than 42 Democratic defectors...
...Tuesday's vigil, Myette presented a stark contrast to the fiery rhetoric of Jean Wallace-Benjamin, who addressed the crowd in front of the former school building. In a relatively subdued voice, Myette read a statement thanking the marchers for their support but made little mention of the city-wide controversy...