Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Veil also gives a detailed account of the CIA's history of covert support for the Nicaraguan contras and reveals that the agency, beginning in the Carter years, gave financial aid to La Prensa, the opposition newspaper that was shut down for 15 months by the Sandinista government before reopening last week. Past charges by the Sandinistas that the paper was CIA-supported have been denied, and Publisher Violeta Chamorro last week labeled Woodward's revelation "totally false...
...dismayed at the "partisanship and political savagery" of the anti-Bork campaign, made three speeches for his nominee last week. He also devoted his Saturday radio address to the Bork battle. "Tell your Senators to resist the politicization of our court system," Reagan urged listeners. "Tell them you support the appointment of Judge Robert Bork." Administration sources said the President is even considering a televised speech to the nation to call for Bork's confirmation. Declared Washington Lobbyist Tom Korologos, one of the White House's chief strategists in the Bork drive: "If we go down, we go down fighting...
...painting Bork's record in neutral colors, right-wing organizations were instructed to tone down their pro-Bork campaigns. Some conservatives blame White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker for preventing the right from using "red-meat issues" such as school prayer, busing and the death penalty to rally support for Bork. "I'm not sure the public has any idea what Bork stands for," says Phillips. "I doubt Howard Baker has any good working overview of what's going on in America." Meanwhile, the anti-Bork juggernaut was allowed to monopolize the media. Print and television advertisements assailing Bork...
Downstairs, students in a time-management class are discovering how much it costs to take a break. Add up salary, benefits, perks, overhead, support staff and contribution to profits, and a manager's time is worth $1.50 a minute -- much more in some cases. Says Instructor Larry Baker: "I had a sales force that was responsible for millions in sales, and one of them said, 'You mean if I sit and drink a cup of coffee for five minutes, that just cost my company $287?' Well, yeah, it did." Imagine what it costs when some jerk gets...
Fisheries are a masterpiece of efficiency: the Chinese encircle them with mulberry bushes. The leaves are eaten by silkworms, whose droppings fall into the ponds and feed the fish. Various species of fish ply the different depths of the ponds, which also support ducks and provide water for pigs...