Word: supportively
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While there has not yet been a national study of the general prevalence of the virus, no large-scale studies support the Crisis contention. To the contrary. Since 1985 the Department of Defense has tested nearly 4 million military personnel and found a stable .15% rate of infection. About .2% of the 8.8 million blood donors screened each year by the American Red Cross are infected. "AIDS is making some encroachments into the heterosexual community," says Dr. Douglas Dieterich of New York University Medical Center. "But it is grossly exaggerated to claim that it is running rampant...
Soon he had some statistics to support that argument, at least for the moment. Polls as recent as last month showed him behind or at best even with possible Democratic opponents. Furthermore, Dole then appeared more electable than Bush in such pairings. Last week the publicity whoosh of victory propelled Bush to the top of surveys matching him against leading Democrats. In a TIME poll conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last Thursday, Bush ran slightly ahead of Democratic Front Runner Michael Dukakis (42% to 37%), while Dole was behind...
...appointed by Bogota -- is designed in part to give cities like Medellin new powers to fight such menaces as organized crime and drugs. Some feel that an administration with a direct mandate to govern will find it easier to face these challenges than an outside appointee with no popular support. Yet many fear that decentralization of power will make cities even less governable than in the past. Nowhere are the concerns greater than in Medellin, where the cartel, a loose association of drug lords who control an estimated 80% of the cocaine entering the U.S., has long wielded lethal power...
...George Bush, the day produced a triumph that rewarded his greatest assets: superb organization, widespread if not passionate support, an ability during two decades in public life to make almost no real enemies. With his mastery of the political game, Bush has virtually ensured his nomination...
...contests like Super Tuesday. And although one can argue that money and TV advertising distorted last week's results, the ability to raise a lot of cash in small amounts from a lot of people is a kind of plebiscite in itself, a test of a candidate's core support. In its very complexity, the system tests those who would be President in many ways, most of which are relevant to the qualities necessary to be an effective President...