Word: supporter
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...think the situation was very poorly handled," Plants opined. "The result is inaccurate and I would support it being retaken. We have to really take a look at how we do voting as a whole...
Murphy's friends and admirers, with the support of University President Neil L. Rudenstine, raised the money for the chair unbeknownst to Murphy, she said...
...support his ideal of a "true" American meritocracy, Lemann calls for a change to content-based college admissions exams. These tests would emphasize mastery of a nationally-established curriculum instead of "learning tricks to outwit multiple-choice aptitude exams." If he feels that this system would be less likely to discriminate against students in poorly run schools and less likely to be twisted by test preparation courses available to the rich, he is truly naive. The SATs are certainly not uncoachable, as ETS once claimed, but they are less dependent upon coaching than tests about subjects in history and chemistry...
...support their initiative, Michigan welfare officials are citing years of widely accepted corporate drug testing; their opponents counter that private institutions are not limited, as government programs are, by the Fourth Amendment. Who's right? It depends on whom you ask, says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The current Supreme Court is very conservative on the Fourth Amendment, and they?ve given government a lot of freedom to enact what many consider to be unreasonable intrusions." In the past, explains Sanders, "the court has generally upheld random drug tests when it has perceived an important impact on safety...
...animal crush films seriously? TIME senior writer Frederic Golden thinks so. "It?s not surprising to me at all that these movies are making it into Congressional hearings," he says. "The animal-rights movement is gaining a lot of momentum in the U.S., and they?ve got enormous support in Congress." But there is one obstacle the backers of the bill may not be able to jump over. "This is a classic First Amendment situation," says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The problem with the law the animal rights advocates are proposing is that it?s almost impossible to target...