Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a centerpiece in the friendly but fierce economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan. For more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew heavy fire from officials within the Commerce Department, who contended that the U.S. would reveal so much advanced aviation technology to Japanese defense contractors that they could develop a civilian aircraft industry that would...
...Middle East the P.L.O. has been ahead in the battle for world opinion ever since last December when it acknowledged Israel's right to exist while continuing to support Arab uprisings in the West Bank and Gaza. But last week, smack in the middle of a visit to Washington by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, Secretary of State James Baker unveiled a series of admittedly "small" confidence-building trade-offs designed to get the antagonists talking. The Palestinians are being asked to moderate the intifadeh in exchange for a looser Israeli grip on the occupied territories...
...Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell said, "The turning down of two or three people was a very traumatic and divisive happening. It's not the natural order of things here. So an occasion when two people gain unanimous support across ideological lines is a particularly welcome event after trauma...
...help awaken readers to the abuse of human rights or the needs of persecuted ethnic and national groups. Distorted, sensational, and ultimately numbing reporting on Israel, on the other hand, while it may have some immediate effect on the plight of the Palestinians, in the long run makes support for the Palestinians secondary to condemnation of Israel. Such reporting will serve only nations like Jordan and Syria--the truer, deeper and more longstanding enemies of Palestinian statehood...
Yesterday's rulings directly affect other drug and alcohol testing programs conducted by federal, state and local governments. For example, they could be used to support testing of police and firefighters...