Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should Carlucci try to cancel some major weapons systems, he would have no guarantee of succeeding. Generals and admirals have become adept at making end runs around their own civilian chiefs to enlist the support of sympathetic Congressmen. And for all their bellowing about vast sums of money wasted on weapons that do not work, few legislators will vote for military economies likely to hurt their own districts. One example: the Pentagon could save perhaps $2 billion a year by closing unneeded military bases, but Congress has not permitted a major base closing since...
More significantly, on April 29 Gorbachev held a meeting with Patriarch Pimen and other members of the Russian Orthodox hierarchy. The encounter, which "deeply impressed" the Patriarch, was the first public reception of Orthodox leaders by a party Secretary since 1943, when Stalin revived the church to win popular support during the worst days of World War II. In another act of conciliation, the regime this month returned to the church a section of its holiest shrine: the 11th century Monastery of the Caves in Kiev, which had been seized in 1961. Now monks will again live there...
Other analysts point out that Gorbachev vitally needs the support of his country's 50 million Orthodox Christians in order to succeed in his far- reaching reforms. The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest organized body in the Soviet Union, far exceeding the Communist Party in membership. Says one Western expert on the Soviet Union who attended the millennium: "This is a society facing social disintegration. They have a youth that is disaffected, an intolerable abortion rate and a serious alcohol and drug problem." Religious believers, points out this observer, "tend to be constructive members of society...
...machinist and assembly-line worker. Designing strategy in his Manhattan office, often dressed in a T shirt and jeans, he hardly looks imposing. But he can marshal large forces as effectively as many a general. Rogers has sent carloads of United Paperworkers -- "caravans" he calls them -- to gather support at the plants and union halls of other industries. The response has been encouraging: in April more than 8,500 sympathizers from unions around the U.S. converged for a rally at the Jay mill, roughly doubling the town's population...
...since only a large saw could give the roses their place in the sun -- I decided to let nature take its course, which is a political act. Charles de Gaulle once said that the secret of political success is to foresee what is going to happen and then to support it. That is why my splendid oak trees shed their leaves on the graveyard of my roses...