Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan called the pact a "triumph" for the U.S.-backed insurgents after a bloody, eight-year war with the Soviet-supported Kabul regime. He said the rebels "can count on our continued support...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) began its current drive to organize nearly 4000 University support staff employees. Last week, after only three days of negotiation with the National Labor Relations Board, the union and the University reached an agreement on the first-ever campus-wide union election among the University's support staff. The timing of the election--May 17--is a major victory for HUCTW. A post-graduation election date was widely regarded as a disadvantage to the union because the 30 percent of the work force who leave their posts each year...
...HUCTW Director Kris Rondeau said, "The union won that date because of the outpouring of support from the other constituencies who make up the community, especially students. The University will be looking over it's shoulder to see whther or not the students are watching them as they continue to design the final stages of their anti-union campaign...
...strategic boldness born of desperation. His target is the upcoming New York primary and, in particular, the nearly one-quarter of the state's Democrats who are Jewish. Gore's newfound issue, as so often happens with underdog candidates in New York, is the fervor of his largely uncritical support for Israel. Gore, who is developing an unhealthy instinct to pander, has attacked Dukakis for endorsing a letter signed by 30 Senators (five of them Jewish) criticizing the Israeli government's refusal to negotiate over the return of occupied territories...
...contends that the tax collectors now have too much of an advantage. "It's time to give taxpayers some rights to even the playing field," he declares. Some form of his bill is expected to pass the Senate, but comparable legislation in the House has not yet garnered the support it needs from Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee. Rostenkowski is afraid that a taxpayers' rights bill would cost the Government as much as $200 million a year -- although that amounts to little more than one-tenth of 1% of the annual deficit. Pryor hopes...