Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a social and cultural part to our organization," said Wendell Ocasio. The second part of our organization is the support part. As leaders and members of these organizations it is our mandate and our responsibility...
...confront delicate situations which have held a nuclear threat and emerge from those dilemmas relatively unscathed. While he writes that "these examples ought to never by repeated," he adds that we can remain comforted by the fact that policymakers have so far had the personal ability and administrative support to avoid disaster...
...council found that although Richmond's population was half black, less than 1% of all public- works contracts had gone to minority firms. But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority, charged that the city had not specifically proved a level of past discrimination that would support its 30% set-aside rule. Wrote O'Connor: "An amorphous claim that there has been past discrimination in a particular industry cannot justify the use of an unyielding racial quota." Although the Richmond law was intended to help minorities, she argued, quota systems are inherently dangerous...
...Kampuchea have made a mockery of American intentions before, and they could do so again. The emergence of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge was partly a result of misguided American policy 20 years ago. Richard Nixon's secret bombing of Kampuchea in 1969 and the CIA's support for a coup by a feckless military junta the following spring contributed to the chaos in which the Khmer Rouge thrived. In 1975 Pol Pot seized power and unleashed a holocaust...
...encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot," recalled Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, in 1981. "Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could." The U.S., he added, "winked semipublicly" as the Chinese funneled arms to the Khmer Rouge, using Thailand as a conduit...