Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left by a Vietnamese retreat from Kampuchea. As part of Mikhail Gorbachev's overall policy of defusing Third World conflicts, Moscow has been pressuring Viet Nam to end its occupation. Hanoi has agreed to pull out all its troops by September. In response, China seems willing to cut off support to the Khmer Rouge once the Vietnamese complete their withdrawal...
...Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming were removed after one of the rockets slipped from its moorings and fell as much as a foot inside its underground silo last August. An investigation determined that the missile's fall was caused by "structural failure of a support skirt," a device that supports the MX while it rests in its silo. Though the stumble set off warning signals that would sound with the firing of an ICBM, a Pentagon spokesman assured that "at no time was there any indication or chance of accidental launch." By the end of last year, corrective steps...
...driving force behind the prayer networks. "In this city, it is very rare to find friendships for friendship's sake," explains Senate chaplain Richard Halverson. "I think it is an expression of the need to share and express feelings with people you can trust." Besides providing a support group where people can pray together and confide personal problems, these weekly gatherings usually focus on Bible studies. "Calling yourself a Christian without reading the Bible is like calling yourself an engineer without reading the textbook," says Susan Baker, a born-again Episcopalian. (Her husband, the Secretary of State, was formerly...
...built as much as 500 ft. belowground. They would house facilities for power generation, air conditioning and waste processing. Each cylinder would be connected by passages to a series of spheres, which would accommodate stores, theaters, sports facilities, offices and hotels. Taisei's initial $4.2 billion design could support 100,000 people...
Pioneered in the 1950s by Louis Kelso, a San Francisco lawyer and economist, ESOPs were slow to catch on. But Kelso eventually created a fertile financial climate for his idea by enlisting the support of Russell Long, the populist Democrat from Louisiana. Before retiring from the Senate Finance Committee in 1986, Long initiated more than 20 bills to encourage creation of ESOPs...