Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union exists even for those who campaigned against it. Otherwise, HUCTW would have no legitimate claim to be the bargaining unit for all Harvard support staff. Until now, the union has made clear that is would represent all workers. In the workers' interest, it must...
...forming coalitions, and equally unwilling to let Congress play a fall-guy role if the President tries to extricate himself from his "read my lips" campaign promises not to raise taxes. Says his friend and mentor Edmund Muskie: "George is a liberal but one who can win the support of many people because he's pragmatic...
Mitchell campaigned with a full-court press that would have done his brothers proud, cadging six to eight Senators a day, extracting ironclad promises, not simple assurances, of support. He was aided by his colleagues' misgivings about Johnston's ties to Big Oil interests and Inouye's lackluster television style. Though Johnston made an issue of Mitchell's Northeastern liberalism, it fell flat, even with moderate and Southern Senators who have been trying to prod their party more toward the political center in the wake of Michael Dukakis' defeat...
...bulldog Secretary acted "from his gut," say State Department aides, but not completely without outside support. A majority of 51 Senators urged him not to admit Arafat. Some members of Congress had been quietly in touch with Jewish representatives. "We didn't want the campaign against Arafat to be an Israeli one; we wanted America to take the lead," explained an Israeli official. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir went on record as opposing a visa for Arafat in a mid-November meeting with U.S. Ambassador Tom Pickering...
Even the Faculty Senate seems to be against the idea. Of the seven people who spoke at a public discussion of the topic, only one was in support of the change, said Robinson...