Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has had no effective housing policy for most of its eight years in power. Samuel Pierce, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is the only remaining member of Ronald Reagan's original Cabinet, yet he has been the Administration's invisible man. Federal support for subsidized housing has been slashed 77%, from $32.2 billion in 1981 to $7.5 billion this fiscal year. HUD authorized the construction of only 88,136 subsidized dwellings in 1987, compared with more than...
Last week's violence came on the day before nominations closed for Nov. 19 elections to form a provincial council in the new northeastern Tamil province. The Tigers say the council will have too little power, and have labeled those who support the election as traitors "who will not be forgiven." The point was ruthlessly driven home last week when three members of Tamil organizations taking part in the voting were shot dead...
...without misgivings. Read today, the mismatch in those essays between her complex inquiries and the nostrums of Communism is palpable. Her lingering reputation as a leftist, however, explains the fire storm she set off with a brief speech six years ago at a New York City forum to voice support for Poland's Solidarity labor union. Though the session had been organized by a coalition of left-wing activists, she delivered a biting denunciation of the Soviet system and called to task those who had not acknowledged sooner that "Communism is fascism with a human face...
...been the heir presumptive to John Stennis' seat ever since the venerable Democrat lost a leg to cancer in 1984. The only question was when. Now that Stennis has retired, there are new questions. Democratic Congressman Wayne Dowdy is backed by the popular Stennis. But Dowdy, who enjoys strong support from blacks (one-third of the voting population), must cut into the white vote...
...perhaps the most serious obstacle for older students, who are often ineligible for college scholarships because of their part-time status. Increasingly, companies are filling the gap, subsidizing at least part of their employees' education costs. At R.I.T., 70% of the students in the continuing-education program get corporate support...