Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's strident nationalism drew a sour reaction from his many critics. "Sarney declared war on the world today," said Fabio Feldman, a Congressman from Sao Paulo who is a vocal environmentalist. "He's trying to - rally public support around a discredited government." Feldman declared the Our Nature program itself "too academic and vague. It won't change a thing." Said another leading ecologist: "It is obvious that the intention of the program is not to save the Amazon but to appease foreign criticism...
...many Northern cities, the Chicago election was an ethnic power struggle. Six years ago, the charismatic Harold Washington became the city's first black mayor with a crusading campaign among blacks that also won the support of some white liberals. That coalition won him re-election in 1987. But his inarticulate successor, Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who took over after Washington's death 16 months ago, was unable to hold the alliance together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout...
...rhetoric from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank last week was unequivocal. Declaring debt relief for the Third World to be a "matter of urgency," the two agencies put their support behind the plan proposed last month by U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady. His program calls for a gradual reduction in the $350 billion owed to commercial banks by the 15 largest borrowers...
...sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo's fledgling government, to Douglas MacArthur's ringing 1942 promise to return to the Philippines and Washington's support for Ferdinand Marcos until the virtual eve of Corazon Aquino's "people power" revolution...
David Kennedy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's scientific-support coordinator, predicts a fairly temporary setback. He expects a 25% reduction in the amount of zooplankton, a fundamental link in the food chain of the sea. That could hurt many varieties of fish. But Kennedy foresees relatively little damage to larger marine mammals, such as seals, dolphins and killer whales. If weather conditions stay favorable, most smaller animals may escape serious harm as well...