Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the three days last week designed to counter Dukakis' dovish image, the candidate talked about using economic pressure to force the Soviets' hand on human rights. In Chicago and Washington he professed support for the Stealth bomber and the Trident II missile. And he peppered his speeches with the sound bite-size generalities that TV news adores: "We're going to put our defense dollars where our defense needs are greatest...
...next President will inherit an accretion of earlier guiding principles named after his various predecessors. Joseph Stalin's probes provoked the Truman Doctrine: "It must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The U.S. set about, through a combination of diplomacy, economic assistance and military alliances, to create an international environment that would "contain" the Soviet empire within its own boundaries, forcing the Marxist-Leninist-Stali nist system to stew in its own poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism...
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the response was the Carter Doctrine -- a threat to oppose, with U.S. troops, Soviet encroachments on the Persian Gulf. Carter's successor had a better idea: he would provide arms to guerrillas battling pro-Soviet regimes. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense," the President declared in his 1985 State of the Union address. The Reagan Doctrine was born...
...would require employers of more than 50 people to allow men or women up to ten weeks of leave to care for a newborn, a seriously ill child or an ailing parent. When House Majority Whip Tony Coelho took a head count this week, he found so much new support among moderates that he has decided to schedule a vote as soon as possible...
...bill received support from 207 Democrats and 168 Republicans, while all 30 votes against the legislation came from Democrats virtually all of them liberals...