Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan to join ranks with 55 other manufacturers and suppliers to develop their own standards for the equipment's inner workings. By creating their new system, dubbed Extended Industry Standard Architecture, the renegades are betting that the $39 billion personal-computer business has grown large enough to support yet another distinct standard, in addition to IBM's and Apple...
...first Perez de Cuellar was looking for new ways to support his efforts to end the Persian Gulf conflict, but the sessions later expanded to include other trouble spots like Afghanistan. The informal meetings offered a regular channel for dealing with thorny issues while avoiding the posturing of public U.N. sessions. The consensus achieved at the sessions has often strengthened Perez de Cuellar's mediation efforts. Says a high U.N. official: "The collaboration of the five has helped the Secretary-General significantly...
...been muted about Iraq's apparent crime. Last week ten nations, including the U.S., Japan and most West European countries, finally called on the U.N. to send a team of experts to Iraq to investigate the Kurdish charges. Three other countries, among them the Soviet Union, lent their support to the effort after the Reagan Administration leaked word that the U.S. had intercepted Iraqi military communications confirming that lethal gas had been used against the Kurds. Iraq promptly rejected U.N. inspection as a challenge to its sovereignty and instead invited journalists to tour the disputed area, a move that many...
...Guns don't kill; people do." The simple logic of that refrain from the National Rifle Association would suggest that the nation's 2.8 million-member gun lobby would support any move to keep the wrong people from acquiring deadly weapons. Not so. The N.R.A. invariably goes to war against any attempt to limit the avalanche of handguns that are used to kill 21,000 Americans annually. Last week the gun lobby triumphed in its latest campaign, a $4 million effort against a sensible congressional proposal to strengthen existing federal restrictions on the sale of handguns. The legislation would have...
...Sarah Brady, wife of White House Press Secretary James Brady, who remains an invalid seven years after being hit by one of John Hinckley's bullets during the attempt to assassinate President Reagan. She has led a series of fights for tighter gun laws. The Brady amendment enjoyed broad support from gun-control opponents, including an unusual coalition of eleven national police organizations. Even the President praised the idea of a waiting period, citing how well it has worked in California. But with elections only six weeks away, many Congressmen who favored the proposal could not ignore the powerful N.R.A...