Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something "ugly" in his book, it is his account of his 30 years with his first wife, Molly. She was a Yankee of the old-fashioned kind, high- principled and strong-minded. Her acceptance of him was, Kazan admits, the first sign that he might amount to something; her support and the stable home she provided were vital to his success. Yet he betrayed her constantly, in an obsessive love affair with Actress Constance Dowling that took years to unwind, and before, during and after that in more brief affairs than he can count or recount -- including one with...
...militarily, he might knock it out of alignment domestically. Nunn was one of 13 Senators who opposed bringing up legislation in 1975 to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, although he voted for a bill in the end. In 1982 Nunn voted to renew the act, but he supported an amendment by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond to limit its extension to 15 rather than 25 years. Nunn voted against ending a filibuster holding up a fair-housing bill in 1980, opposed a 1978 move to extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment, and has supported a constitutional...
Although Congress and the White House reached general agreement on most elements of the bill, they were at loggerheads over the plant-closing notification -- an extraneous issue. The Democrats embraced the provision as an important gesture of support for American workers. To the Administration it became a symbol of unwarranted Government interference in business...
...years. Yet al- Wazir's death was also intended to decapitate the intifadeh, the five- month- old uprising that has rocked the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. As head of the P.L.O.'s "western-sector command," he was in charge of the organization's support for the rebellion. Killing him, the Israelis believed, would deal the uprising a serious blow...
...Israelis -- and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat -- should know by now, the intifadeh seems to be running itself. Arafat and other Arab leaders have lent considerable rhetorical support to the uprising, as well as an undetermined amount and of financial aid. Just last week Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad held a surprise meeting in Damascus to assert their joint symbolic control over the uprising. The encounter was their first since 1983, whenAssad sent the Palestinian leader into exile after a long feud. "There are no differences among the one family," said Arafat after the meeting. "The outcome ((of the session...