Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft-money ban, up or down ? an approach that has apparently won one convert, Sam Brownback of Kansas. But even if another seven relent, Dickerson says the Democrats ?- who have been unanimously and gleefully in support of the bill for years ?- will mysteriously find some reason why it?s no longer palatable...
...that the President has a habit of doing the same thing. "This was badly mishandled on both sides of Washington," says Calabresi. "The Republicans scheduled a vote and then tried but failed to find a way out. But the administration clearly hadn?t done nearly enough work to muster support for the treaty." Adds TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "It?s too bad that the President offered his most spirited defense of the treaty only after it had been defeated. If he?d done that earlier it might have helped sway some votes...
...review what goes in there, and make sure it isn't...a product...that we wouldn't want to support," Powell says...
...opening of Fight Club makes it clear that the movie's a satire. It's supposed to be a biting mockery of yuppie angst. When Norton starts attending testicular cancer and TB support groups to release his anger and built-up anxiety, we laugh (albeit uncomfortably, but we laugh). When he meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group squatter, and they divide group therapy sessions between them, we laugh. But when blood starts flying, Norton starts crying, and buildings start frying, we stop laughing. (It almost reminded me of Showgirls, the way the movie just loses...
...profit organization, run by the students of Eliot House, sends its proceeds to the Jimmy Fund, a branch of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute founded in 1948 to support efforts to eradicate cancer. The fund-raiser has raised over $2 million since it was first held...