Word: supporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...manufacturers and Microsoft have done in the past three years—for starters, bundling “crapware” with their store-bought PC’s that slowed them down to a virtual crawl, violating European antitrust regulations regarding software bundling, and prematurely cutting off support for Windows XP (the world’s most popular operating system), Apple looks pretty good in comparison. Oh, and did I mention Windows Vista...
Hutchison also brought out big guns like former Vice President Dick Cheney to vouch for her conservatism, while Perry responded with a rally headlined by Sarah Palin. But when former President George H.W. Bush and several other Bush-family insiders endorsed Hutchison, the event underlined Hutchison support among what one Perry adviser calls "country-club Republicans...
...death panels." In Nashville, she retailed nonsense about stimulus funds going to nonexistent districts. (A spokesman for Vice President Joe Biden, who is monitoring the stimulus package, told me that all funds went to actual places - but recipients occasionally didn't write down their correct congressional districts.) And her support for bombing Iran was, no doubt, the work of her new Washington-insider neoconservative policy advisers, Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, who had John McCain singing from the same warmongering songbook...
...national team, stripped of her titles and barred from competition in 1986 after gender-verification tests showed she was genetically male. IOC medical officials allowed her to compete in the 1992 Olympic trials in Barcelona, but the damage was done. "In the worst of moments, when I had no support from anyone, I thought I would be better off dead," she says. "It killed me that I couldn't participate in the sport and, above all, I thought I would never recover from the embarrassment...
...horrific neglect that Melville suffered, a largely unpublicized audit claims that her death was only part of a much greater problem. According to a 2007 report leaked to the Australian on Feb. 6 and written by psychologist Howard Bath, then the director of a nonprofit organization that specializes in support for child, youth and family services, the Northern Territory child-protection system is near collapse. Today, just over two years after Australia apologized for six decades of a policy that forcibly removed Aboriginal children from their homes, a new inquiry into that system is being launched...