Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Participating prefects say the changes have revitalized the program and given the upperclassmen more guidance and support...
...dollars to buy pesos. By last week, however, Mexican officials began to fear that they would come close to running out of greenbacks. If that happened, Mexico would be unable to pay interest on its foreign loans and obtain new credit from banks. Result: the government abruptly abandoned its support of the peso, sending the currency into a free fall...
Koch has declared himself "chagrined and mortified that this kind of corruption could exist and I did not know of it." His ignorance may have been willful: during his first campaign for mayor, Koch, running as a reformer, secretly solicited the support of Meade Esposito, Brooklyn's powerful Democratic boss. Then, as mayor, Koch appointed Esposito's pal Anthony Ameruso as transportation commissioner, even though an advisory board had declared Ameruso unqualified. The transportation department went on to become the source of major scandals. Ameruso has been convicted of perjury, Esposito of corruption in a separate case. The mayor, says...
...pneumonia. Economist Matthew Drennan of New York University's Graduate School of Public Administration projects that without a market turnaround, 28,000 jobs will be lost in the securities industry and 7,000 in banking, wiping out an equal number, 35,000, in restaurants, retailing, real estate, hotels and support services...
...were relieved simply by the fact that an agreement had been reached at all. As late as Thursday night, the negotiations seemed doomed. House Republicans, angered by the new taxes in the package, were threatening to oppose the deal. Democrats said they would not approve the compromise without G.O.P. support. Said House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray: "I'm not going to ask Democrats to jump off a cliff while Republicans wave...