Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buckley's friend had been a woman, it is doubtful that she would have pressed sexual harassment charges and been awarded the support that he is now getting--and if the gay student involved had been a woman rather than a man, I doubt further that anyone would have said anything at all. The reaction to the approaches of the gay student were thus contingent on both students being male. And this reaction is what Defeat Homophobia and the BGLSA are taking about. The issue with this reaction is homophobia...
...Premier Li Peng. The Chinese did, though. Toward the end of a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation on Sunday afternoon, Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang told Bush that dissidents threatened to upset the social order, which would "provide a pretext for the turning back of ((economic)) reforms." American support for them, Zhao added bluntly, "will not be conducive to the relationship between China and the U.S." Rushing off to a television interview, Bush did not respond. Just a few hours later, Fang was herded away from the Sheraton by plainclothes police...
...seen their endowments rising. The United Negro College Fund reported a record $44.1 million in contributions for its past fiscal year. Bill Cosby's announcement in November that he would donate $20 million to Spelman College, the Atlanta institution from which his daughter graduated, was another dollar sign of support from black parents...
...underclass is inextricably tied to the flight from the inner city of most of its upwardly mobile black population. Its departure not only deprived poor youngsters of successful role models but also knocked the props from under churches, schools and other neighborhood institutions that provided stability and support for the impoverished. Middle-class flight, together with economic shifts that have resulted in a dearth of low-skill factory jobs, dooms the inner city to social isolation and despair...
...November 7, the Cambridge electorate will vote up or down a binding affordable homeownership initiative petition I have written, called 'Proposition 1-2-3.' This will appear on the ballot through the support of 15,000 people (30 percent of the registered Cambridge voters) who have cared enough about the issues it involves to sign in public the petition papers...