Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Townsend had the money, the familial support and the name recognition in her bid for Congress against a first-term incumbent. But she lost to Bentley, garnering only 41 percent of the vote, despite efforts to exploit her name...
...Graham Jr., to evict tenants from rent-controlled apartments in a six-family building he had recently bought, to make room for his own family and two of his sisters. Although Graham was present at the sale of the house, she denied giving her son anything more than moral support...
...does not feel that the vice president has tempered his views for the sake of image--although he charges Dukakis with changing his position on defense. This is not to say that either candidate sticks to the relevant issues. As Lindsey notes, the ever-present discussion of drugs and support of the American Civil Liberties Union are hardly urgent to any President's tenure. "But it is indicative of [a candidate's] approach," he adds...
...other "moralistic" foreign policy alternative is to carry on as we are: aggressively and (if necessary) unilaterally supporting American interests and values around the world, arming a movement here, putting pressure on a dictatorship there, as J.F.K. put it, "to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Without an Evil Empire to contend with, the job becomes easier -- there is less need to support dictators in the name of anti- Communism -- but harder to justify. Why make the effort? Seventy years ago, Americans were not wildly enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy. Whether a post-Soviet America...
Despite strong early support, Proposition 102 is now rated a toss-up. Proposition 96, a less controversial initiative that would allow courts to order HIV tests for those charged with sex and assault crimes, is leading by a considerable margin. Even if both measures are rejected, however, the crusade ! against AIDS victims is likely to resurface when another election rolls around...