Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what role the students play," said Myers. He said it was hard to tell whether all the students registered will actually vote in the city election, but he has canvassed dormitories in the hope that they will. David E. Sullivan has also visited dorm rooms to seek student support, Berger said...
...reduced to banalities. "I still believe the solution is not to go rushing out to raise taxes," he declared, staking out a position that Reagan seemed about to abandon. The next day in Iowa, the Vice President reaped further confusion by reframing his position on taxes. "I'll support the Administration, and I won't change," Bush promised. "But now I'm a candidate, and when I become President, there won't be any tax increases...
...making abstract forms that, by moving in deep pictorial space, reawakened one's sense of the body. His way of doing this, in paintings from the Indian Birds series like Ram gangra, 1978, was to get rid of the solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed to have gone over the edge of decorum: a demotic yawp of rose, cerise, blue, sulfur-yellow, greens...
Though the U.S. bombardment of Iranian oil platforms raised new fears, it received quiet backing from the Arab gulf states and more vocal support from West European allies and even from Congress, where the Senate has been eager to enhance Congress's role in deciding gulf policy. One senior Pentagon officer said the attack on the oil platforms, though seen by some of his colleagues as too mild, was "as much as we could do to the Iranians while doing the least possible to the Congress." The Senate passed a resolution supporting the retaliation by a 92-to-1 vote...
...agricultural supports. Too much of the price-support budget goes to the wealthiest farmers. During 1985, when $23.7 billion was distributed, only one- third of U.S. farms collected price supports; almost 70% of those payments went to farmers with annual sales of $100,000 or more. Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, a Republican presidential contender, proposes to wean farmers from income subsidies over five years, thus producing a $5 billion savings the first year and $75 billion in total. Agrees Harvard Economist Robert Reich: "The benefit of such aid is not as great as the social costs in failing...