Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much more support; it would just slop over. The question is how much of that reservoir will he have to draw down...
...already putting the screws to Democratic Senators and Congressmen, competing with Carter for their endorsements. The pressure from both rivals is heavy and direct, and some Democratic politicians try to please both. As Kennedy left the Senate floor one day, a well-known Democrat who has already announced his support for Carter beckoned the Senator aside. The Democrat passed Kennedy a list of people in his home state who might help him campaign. Said Kennedy: "He's playing both sides. There's a lot of that. People are staying loose...
Lobbying in Washington may not be the most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
Sinatra and Martin said they support Reagan--who will announce his candidacy for president on November 13--at a press conference just before the show began...
Although some U.S. banks lend to corporations that benefit blacks in South Africa, the Sullivan Committee believes loans to the government or its agencies support a system that is against the interests of blacks, Parnell said...