Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting and create a broad-based coalition government that would include the Kabul Communists. Confident that the rebels' star was in the ascendant, the White House refused the request. But disappointment over the guerrillas' military failure has led policymakers to debate the wisdom of eyes-closed support to the mujahedin. For now, though, the U.S. has apparently decided to stand firm. "In a nutshell," said one adviser, "we still think our guys can win, and there is no reason for them, or us on their behalf, to sue for peace...
...what is peculiar to American Samoa, one need travel only 40 miles across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea-lapping cadences of the South Pacific; in American, they favor the twang of Beach Boys and Valley Girls. In Western, residents play the genteel old colonial game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American...
...perhaps the delusions of Professors Pons and Fleischmann." When the nine members of the cold-fusion review panel were asked if they thought the Utah experiment was a dead issue, eight raised their hands. The only holdout was Johann Rafelski of the University of Arizona, who did not support Pons and Fleischmann but said he would nonetheless withhold judgment...
...than 90% agreed with the statement that "everybody should have the right to get the best possible health care -- as good as the treatment a millionaire gets." But another survey, by the Public Agenda Foundation, found that only one person in ten would accept a $125 tax increase to support a national insurance program for catastrophic illness. As medical costs rise at an annual rate of more than 15%, public health facilities try to cope with the needs of the 37 million Americans -- about 15% of the population -- who have no medical insurance at all. "We want...
...that what is merely an option for one individual can be a life-or- death matter for another. Still, until the U.S. is ready for the huge fiscal sacrifices that would make complete medical care available to all, some form of rationing -- with rules clearly established and given community support -- may be the only fair and practical answer...