Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August, Councillor and Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf introduced an order to reaffirm the city government's support of abortion rights, which was defeated because it did not receive the requisite five votes needed to pass...
Being a Democrat in Nassau County might best be defined as the politics of the down and out. We have no inspiring candidates, close to no money and almost no voter support. We are used to losing, and probably wouldn't even know what to do if we won. The result is one-party, closed-door government, running local affairs with no effective opposition...
Kraus began working on financial aid problems at GSAS during a "crisis time," Jones says. The government had cut support for graduate education. So in a system dubbed the Kraus plan, he devised a means for allocating the remaining resources "as equitably as possible...when people were used to a different type of lifestyle...
Early next year, both parties will hold conventions to endorse candidates and eliminate those with little support. And because of what they see as brighter prospects in 1990, the competition has already begun among Republicans, whose non-binding convention will endorse one candidate in each of the 277 races...
...same time, Democrats outside Cambridge are using the Republican threat to drum up support for their primary candidacies...