Word: supportive
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...question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether bad for Al Gore, and the Seattle debacle may, in fact, work to the vice president's advantage: The Clinton administration's tough talk on labor rights won support from union leaders, and the summit's failure means there's no trade-talk framework agreement for the vice president to defend against Democratic party skeptics. U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky, who chaired the Seattle talks, closed the conference Friday calling for a "time out" in the talks...
...appeal to the youth vote you have to convince them you're willing to change the way government works," said Senator Fred Thompson (R--Tenn) who, in his 1994 run for the Senate, saw young voters turn in out in droves to support his candidacy...
...Ballot-casters like Montaine and Dawes are important in New Hampshire because in primary states where two candidates vie for the support of the state party organization, new electors can cast the deciding votes...
...club's trip to the Board-a-thon yesterday was about more than fun in the snow. Pledges collected by event participants will go to various charities that support breast cancer research...
...obiter craft to Mars every 26 months. The failure of another $100 million probe just months after the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost as a result of the now-infamous metric mixup could mean an entire rethinking of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" strategy, and threaten congressional support for the whole Mars project. Already the criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything to go just right in order to succeed. But the agency isn't conceding anything yet. "When we started...