Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more whites than Blacks are registered, and Blacks have poorer turnout percentages. In order for a Black candidate to win, they must get a large turnout of Black voters and win 15 to 20 percent of white voters. Washington had done this, but Evans could not even get the support of the Black community because he was running in opposition to interim Mayor Eugene Sawyer, a Black man, whose supporters did not take so kindly to Evans saying that he was the one Black politician who could carry on the Washington agenda...
...introduced a bill that would establish a national program of voluntary service. The Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989, if enacted, would mobilize the nation's youth to help meet important national military and civilian needs, while at the same time promoting upward mobility through expansion of federal support for higher education, job training or housing for the program's volunteers...
Oscar Orellana Garcia, a representative of the human rights arm of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--which has fought a civil war in El Salvador throughout this decade--said U.S. support should be restricted to humanitarian aid and conditional upon the resolution of the country's political turmoil...
HUSO should be allowed to succeed or flounder of its own accord. If it lacks student support, it will fail in the free marketplace of ideas...
According to co-founder Van Truong, HUSO has four goals: to be a forum for communication, an officer support group ("leadership is so trying, sob, sob"), an opportunity to act on common issues (name one besides the student center) and a place to exchange news and agendas...