Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...language of the indictments says forcefully and clearly what the president, not to mention the vice president, should have said long ago about the covert doings, terming them "a program to continue funding of and logisitical and other support for military and paramilitary operations" at a time when the law prevented such action...
...lying to Congress--all of it is effect rather than cause. It is the disregard for the will of the Congress--and thus the will of the people--and the single-minded determination to back the contras even when the nation had made known its opposition to that support, that must be punished. The other actions are only the inevitable consequences of one branch of government taking the law unto its own hands...
Suddenly the students were receiving support from deaf people across the U.S. The reason is that this 100-acre campus, only a mile northeast of Capitol Hill, is a Mecca for the hearing impaired. Since it was founded by an Act of Congress in 1864, Gallaudet has become one of the world's foremost training centers for the deaf. And yet it has never had a hearing-impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf...
Every politician in Washington, it seemed, wanted to be counted among supporters of the protesters. Seven House members sent Spilman a letter expressing their concern. Presidential contenders from George Bush to Jesse Jackson to Paul Simon weighed in with support for the naming of a deaf college president...
Reaction from AIDS experts has ranged from "drivel" to "hogwash." U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop promptly called the work "irresponsible" and accused Masters and Johnson of "scare tactics." "There are no scientific data to support these alarming statements," warned Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. "They pile their statements, each holding a thin layer of established fact, on top of one another like slices of bologna." Many criticized the trio for first publishing their findings in a mass-market book, which was excerpted last week in Newsweek, instead of in a scientific journal where their data...