Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straw men are the "oppositionists" he so often criticizes. Whether they actually exist or are merely the creations of a canny political illusionist, they are effective in winning him support. They inspire perestroika's enthusiasts to greater effort and at the same time put pressure on nervous provincial leaders who want to avoid falling into the dread category of opposition...
Entering where even the KGB presumably fears to tread, agents reportedly managed to plant an eavesdropping bug in one high-level Pentagon office. They tapped and tape-recorded the telephones of two senior military-procurement officials: James Gaines, director for acquisition and congressional support for the Navy; and Victor Cohen, deputy for tactical warfare systems for the Air Force. They also tapped the home and office phones of an undisclosed number of people outside the Pentagon. NBC News reported that the investigators collected some 4,800 conversations over 290 days and that 671 of the talks contained incriminating statements...
...women with children, may now become a job program that would enable people to get off the dole altogether. By a vote of 93 to 3, the Senate agreed last week to revamp the nation's welfare laws in the hope of breaking the cycle of dependency on government support. "It's the first major change since the 1930s," said New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the architect of the bill, "and it redefines the notion of welfare...
...measure extends benefits to families in which both parents are unemployed; no longer will there be an incentive for a father to leave the home. In fact, the incentives will go the other way: the bill will get delinquent fathers to pay their fair share of child support by requiring employers to deduct support payments from their wages...
...Broederbond finally showed him the answer. "I had to conform," he recalls. "I had to toe the line." When he finally quit, "it was almost like committing social suicide. There were people who suddenly stopped being my friends." In his lectures at Stellenbosch, Smith began challenging the church's support of apartheid. Afrikaner students accused him of preaching integration. "Teach theory, not conclusions," his superiors warned him. When Smith joined in public protests against the government's bulldozing of squatter shacks in Capetown, he was called before a church commission to justify his action. It was then that...