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Word: supportively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, speaking outside St. Brygida's Catholic Church in Gdansk, told about 6000 supporters that the time had come for them to take a stand in support of the striking steel workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police, Protesters Clash in Polish Cities | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...issues have such visceral appeal to workers as the plant-closing provision. Mike Dukakis, with his promotion of high-tech growth and labor management cooperation, has had some trouble convincing blue-collar voters that he can represent their interests. His declaration of support for the plant closing measure should go far in reasserting the Democrats' former hold on the blue-collar vote. Dukakis' support of the plant closing measure would serve notice that he represents the party of compassion, and Bush the party of privilege...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Trading In Opportunities | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...thinking" last year, nearly two years after he was discovered to have AIDS. He marvels that he is still alive while more than 50 of his acquaintances have succumbed to the disease. Although he tires too easily to hold a job, he is able to work with an AIDS support group, trying to "give hope to people to hang on." His survival, he says, is due to "my determination. I refuse to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surviving Is What I Do | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...were punishing itself today simply for guessing wrong long ago. Bad guesses are not moral failings, but the sweeping suspension of rights for one racial group certainly is. People were interned if they were only one-eighth Japanese by blood. There were no camps for German Americans, despite real support for Germany and Hitler in the German-American Bund. And no camps were set up for Japanese Americans in Hawaii, where there were plenty of ethnic Japanese but no strong tradition of anti-Japanese resentments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: An Apology to Japanese Americans | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...still much to worry about. Dukakis' latest and most important victory to date was a product of shrewd defensive play and some luck, rather than the innovative offense he will need in the fall. Jackson started off with virtually solid backing from New York's blacks and heavy support among Hispanics. To win, he still had to reach a significant bloc of white liberals and union members. Most of all, he had to hope that Gore would peel enough white votes from Dukakis to make the race competitive. Instead, Gore flopped utterly. He became a prisoner of his chief local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marathon Man | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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