Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the day, the influential Massachusetts Hospital Association staged a Statehouse rally for about 300 people and announced its directors voted unanimously to support the governor's bill, which would provide more than $900 million in new revenue to hospitals over the next four years...
...billion in 1989 through the sale of federal assets like the Naval Petroleum Reserves and other one-shot gimmicks that will do nothing to reduce the deficit permanently. The President wants to boost outlays for education, law enforcement, science and AIDS research -- all worthy proposals -- but steadfastly refuses to support tax hikes to finance increased spending over the long run. Moreover, Reagan's budget projections are based on the decidedly optimistic assumption that the gross national product will grow an average 3.2% annually over the next five years. Even with that rosy projection, the Administration forecasts a deficit...
...fervent congregations as political beachheads, just as Jesse Jackson employs black churches, Robertson nonetheless has failed to unite even his own religious family. Likely Republican voters who describe themselves as Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...
...handle political heat when he has to. Last summer leaders of national Jewish organizations traveled to Boston to size up the Governor. It was an important meeting for Dukakis, whose wife is Jewish and used to serve as co-chair of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Jewish support in a presidential election is a formidable resource, and Dukakis -- if he can show himself electable -- is a favorite candidate. The Jewish leaders questioned Dukakis on topics like arms sales to Arabs. Dukakis, though he didn't say much, told them what they wanted to hear. What did he think...
...other major business in America is subsidized the way farming is. Price- support payments and federal assistance for flood and crop insurance could be trimmed substantially...