Word: vehemently
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...rural America. Indeed, a good example of the Reid style can be found in his handling of that hottest of issues, abortion. He opposes it except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. But he has leavened that position with vehement support for contraception. He joined with Maine Republican Olympia Snowe to offer a bill ordering private health-insurance plans to cover birth control. He successfully filibustered for including such coverage in federal-employee health plans. Kate Michelman, former head of naral Pro-Choice America, says, "I'm honored...
...council also passed a grant package for the week despite vehement protest from some quad representatives and council parliamentarian E.E. Keenan...
...close enough around the country and the details showed trends in my own home state that I just could not handle. Laugh at me, I deserve it. I should’ve remembered that Michigan swings for a reason. I should’ve understood that those vehement letters in my local newspaper against gay marriage weren’t some random crazies, but part of the 59 percent that would vote for an amendment to ban it. I should’ve seen it coming when old friends from high school finally joined thefacebook.com and reminded me that every...
...election, ask Congress for roughly $70 billion, on top of the $25 billion already allocated to pay for the war during FY 2005. Together, these figures amount to more than double what Bush had previously estimated would be necessary and half of what Democrats had speculated in their most vehement attacks. And, of course, combined it means the costs of the war in Iraq are actually increasing—last fall Congress allocated $87 billion for FY 2004. Passing this new sum through Congress may well be a Herculean task...
...quickly becoming as commonplace as “sucks,” they aren’t (except if you’re a Yalie). By blowing this small issue out of proportion, BGLTSA seems to signal that it will be just as aggressive in the future. This unnecessarily vehement peer pressure will promote unneeded self-censorship—relatively benign in this case, perhaps, but potentially a huge problem in an academic community based on free and open discourse, not on allowing groups of students to enforce their perception of what is politically correct on everyone else just...