Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...associate vice president, O'Neill has overseen a wide range of community service programs, ranging from relief efforts for victims of the earthquake in Soviet Armenia to support programs for the city's school system...
...holding up SALT II for a Carter Administration commitment to increase conventional-forces spending. "They told me they couldn't think of how to spend more money," says Nunn, still incredulous. "That was what really started SALT II down the drain." But Nunn wasn't implacably hostile. His support of the Panama Canal treaty gave Carter one of his greatest victories. "I think it would have lost if I hadn't gone along," says Nunn. "There were at least two Senators who were waiting to see which way I'd go." (When Nunn boasts, which is rarely, it is almost...
...that the hemisphere is ours," says Nunn, "but the reality is that the Soviets are already major players in Cuba and Nicaragua. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that reality and trying to fashion a policy that ties Moscow's need for Western credits to a diminution of their support for Castro and the Sandinistas...
...daughter. Unfortunately, banning the kidney sale won't solve the problem of paying for the operation. Nor can the world yet afford expensive operations for everyone who needs one. And leaving aside the melodrama of the daughter's operation, we don't stop people from doing things to support their families -- working in coal mines, for example -- that reduce their life expectancies , more than would the loss of a kidney. In fact, there are places in the Third World where even $4,400 can do more for a person's own life expectancy than a spare kidney...
...choice as a panacea for the ills of public education, but most educators view it as only one of many necessary tools. "Choice is a nice initiative, but it's not the answer," says California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig. "It's the day-to-day support for reform that is important to improving education." And improving education, as President Bush well knows, will cost money...