Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factors pressing for university-industry involvement have become more compelling in recent years. The fact is that academia needs the money. Support for basic scientific research from the federal government and private sources has fallen drastically in the last 20 years, making it harder for schools to bankroll the expensive work performed in today's labs. Harvard has promised that the 10 percent in profits it receives will be devoted to faculty research...
Twenty years later, the Vatican's support for Humanae Vitae is as strong as ever, but with a twist. The church has now become the world's most active proponent of natural family planning, a more effective version of the old unreliable rhythm method. A new department has been set up within the Curia, the Vatican's bureaucracy, to promote birth regulation. In Rome, Gemelli Hospital houses a twelve-year-old N.F.P. clinic run by a Catholic university and headed by a nun. Since it opened, the clinic has taught N.F.P. methods to 1,660 couples, and claims that...
...most damaging reverse came in Derry, where a middle-aged man and woman were blown up by an I.R.A. booby-trap bomb intended for a British army patrol. The accident prompted yet another embarrassed apology by the terrorists. They realize such mistakes cost them support, even among sympathizers in Ulster's 500,000-member Catholic community, and stiffen the determination of the Protestant majority, 1 million strong, to continue keeping a lid on the minority...
Nonetheless, witnesses in Gibraltar have said the three victims -- Mairead Farrell, 31; Daniel McCann, 30; and Sean Savage, 23 -- were unarmed, on foot and shot without warning by plainclothes gunmen, who immediately disappeared in police cars after the shootings. The accounts received some unexpected support last week from Dr. Alan Watson, a University of Glasgow pathologist who testified for the British government. He told the hearing that his work had been impeded by British officials, and described the shootings as a "frenzied attack...
...does Polly, a fortyish art historian at work on a biography of a brilliant, little-known woman painter named Lorin Jones, really have a problem? Polly's women friends don't think so. Most of them are solitaries of one sort or another, and they warmly support her isolation. She is well shed, they feel, of her first husband, a medical researcher who, a few years before, with typical male arrogance, left Manhattan for a job in Denver, forcing Polly to choose between marriage and her museum job. Her only difficulty, in this view, is that their delightful 13-year...