Word: supportively
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Although the city council's first Black President Bruce C. Bolling had the support of the mayor and was once thought a shoe-in for a third term, council members voted him out and replaced him with long-time Boston City Councilor Chistopher Ianella...
According to Elizabeth Sherman, Director of the Women in Government Program at Boston College, Bolling has lost support from Boston's Black community because he is not progressive enough. "He did not support Mel King and [a move to rename the Roxbury district] Mandela. He really has not done any political log-rolling," she said...
Outgoing president Bolling disagreed. "Ianella has been pretty supportive of my progressive agenda," Bolling said. "I don't sense he will change in terms of continuing to support" a progressive solution to the housing shortage...
When Mayor Raymond Flynn could not convince seven people on the council to go for his candidate, incumbent Bolling, he decided to support Ianella over Casey. Casey charged that the Mayor's choice was based on sexism, saying, "Raymond Flynn has a problem with women...
...Capitol Hill some progress has been made toward the more positive goal of encouraging gifted Americans. Measures are under way in Congress that would increase graduate-fellowship aid from $115 million to $150 million next year, provide $95 million for upgrading university research facilities by 1990, and raise federal support for math and science education in elementary schools from $80 million to $150 million...