Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ticket in both 1980 and 1984. Presser was named an adviser to the 1980 Reagan transition team, headed by none other than Edwin Meese III. "Had this information been available at the time," Attorney General Meese said last week, "President Reagan . . . would obviously not have accepted that kind of support." But evidence of the Teamsters' pact with the devil was known well before 1980. As the report of the President's Commission on Organized Crime points out, "Jackie Presser had . . . an extensive record of organized-crime associations through organizations that were infested with La Cosa Nostra associates and convicted felons...
...time he was 25, Olmos had two sons: Mico, from the Spanish mi hijo (my son), and Bodie, named after a ghost town in eastern California. To support his growing brood, he took a job delivering antique furniture between acting and music gigs. By the early '70s, Olmos was landing small parts on shows like Kojak and Hawaii Five-O, often as bartenders and two-bit hooligans. "I was the only person Jack Lord shot in the back, ever," he notes dryly. "That's how bad I was." Then in 1978, during an audition for a play at Los Angeles...
...problem, says the OTA study, is that most U.S. managers, under pressure to show short-term profits, adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward innovation. Meanwhile, their foreign competitors, backed by government support, seek out | commercial applications more aggressively. Some proposed solutions: more joint ventures among industrial companies and increased Government funding of commercial development...
...usually to endorse their pro-reform assertions. The General Secretary even provided some moments of comic relief. After Politburo Member Alexander Yakovlev read a note asking delegates to refrain from delivering self-serving accounts of local party activities, Gorbachev leaned back in his chair and deadpanned, "That has the support of the conference, right...
After initial worries, this policy has won the support of the gulf states and of many Western allies who have dispatched their own warships to further our efforts. So far, none of these countries have denounced the U.S. for the tragedy and for our overall role in the Gulf...