Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This would be nothing new for the U.S. federal agencies, who at the moment are working on reducing the number of refugees not just from the countries we support or ignore, like El Salvador or Haiti, but from our communist "enemies" as well. Reagan's proposed budget plans a 25 percent cut in the funds for resettling refugees. So, at a time when Thailand is completely closing its borders to an overflow of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, the U.S. has decided to reduce their legal numbers by 6000 per year. This will make room for the potential influx of Jews...
...Illinois Governor James Thompson, 51. Appeal: his Midwestern strength might help in an area where Reagan-Bush support has been soft. He demonstrated loyalty by backing Bush early. Handicaps: he is klutzy on television and has presided over state tax increases...
...deficits, a huge campaign issue. Next morning he was at a Cabinet breakfast, collecting intelligence on the budget and trade. After that, he jetted to South Carolina to honor a speaking invitation from Republican Strom Thurmond, a locus of Senate power, even though Thurmond had been a pillar of support down there for Bob Dole...
Dukakis, now universally regarded as the party's front runner, kept boasting that he was a "national candidate" thanks to his clear-cut victories in Texas and Florida. But an artfully tailored campaign that garnered the support of Hispanics in South Texas and Frost Belt refugees in the condo canyons of South Florida did not transform Dukakis into a win-Dixie Democrat. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor left few footprints in the red clay of the traditional South; in Alabama and Mississippi, he won less than 10% of the vote. "Dukakis gained a half step on everyone else this week," said...
...others scrambled up North, his Southern victories could prove as evanescent as Bob Dole's I'm-one-of-you Iowa sweep. Few voters displayed any deep commitment to the still ill-defined Gore candidacy; even in states that abut his native Tennessee, Gore won much of his support in the final 72 hours of the campaign. As Georgia Democratic Chairman John Henry Anderson, a Dukakis supporter, put it, "People voted for Gore because he was viewed in the end as the Southern candidate. No one else caught...