Word: supporting
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Though you did not say that I was supporting Brown, I've received a number of calls and letters from people who got that impression. I am not supporting Brown's presidential candidacy, nor could I begin to consider such support until he renounces his current endorsement of a constitutional convention. It seems to me that this is a major and dangerous misjudgment on his part, and that he has lent credibility to the ultra-right-wing drive to rewrite and weaken the Constitution...
...know, a football game hardly compares with the sanctity of the Jewish New Year (though I've never understood why we celebrate the new year in September), but the Crimson needs all the support it can get. Now that's not to say Harvard's in trouble. Columbia is nothing to write home about. I know you don't read the magazine, Rabbi--neither do I. But someone forced me to read Penthouse's college football preview though I refused to look at any pictures), and the magazine picked Columbia as one of its 20 worst collegiate football teams. Still...
...National Education Association--an uncommitteed and potentially powerful block of votes. So Carter promised the NEA a department of its very own and the NEA gave Carter its first endorsment of a presidential candidate. The president has tried to keep his promise--a down payment for the NEA's support in the 1980 election...
Even if you overlook the fact that the proposal is just so much political baggage, however, the content of the legislation is grounds enough for dismissal. It is ironic that the Washington outsider whose 1976 campaign platform promised to pare down the overgrown federal blob has thrown his support behind a proposal that will further crowd the Washington community and further extend a tradition of Washington mismanagement. A separate cabinet-level Department of Education, is the easy way out. For more than 30 years, education has been the orphan child of the Washington bureacracy--drifting from the Interior Department...
Radcliffe sent an alumna to that meeting to vote in favor of the proposal, Gardiner said. Although the bank's management opposed the resolution, an "astounding" 5 to 6 per cent of the shareholders voted for it, Gardiner said. Proposals opposed by management usually receive much less support, he added...