Word: sponsorship
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Reagan also cited as reasons for his moves Iran's "refusal to implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 598, its continued aggression against non-belligerent nations of the Persian Gulf and its sponsorship of terrorism there and elsewhere in the world...
Both aircraft were part of an unprecedented, $10 million scientific mission carried out by the U.S. under the combined sponsorship of NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Chemical Manufacturers Association. The purpose: to find out why the layer of ozone gas in the upper atmosphere, which protects the earth's surface from lethal solar ultraviolet radiation, was badly depleted over Antarctica. The scale of the mission reflected an intensifying push to understand the detailed dynamics of potentially disastrous changes in the climate. The danger of ozone depletion is only part of the problem...
...four-time Academy Award nominee. Yates will be the first of a series of movie directors who will attend Harvard screenings under the sponsorship of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
...revived doubts about Ortega's status as an independent decision maker, but it was far friendlier than a session in Washington on the same subject. When Ronald Reagan met with more than a dozen conservative supporters to discuss his tentative support of the Guatemala plan, as well as his sponsorship of a rival accord hammered out with Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright, his guests angrily denounced both pacts. They argued that either one of them would destroy the U.S.-backed contras who are fighting to overthrow Ortega's Sandinista government. Said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus...
Most of the considerable emotion that surrounds the establishment clause concerns education -- aid to schools with religious sponsorship and the treatment of religion in public schools. In 1985 the Supreme Court threw out a law authorizing a "moment of silence" in Alabama's public classrooms because the state law specified that the purpose was to set aside time to pray. The court hinted broadly that it might accept a nearly identical law if the measure did not narrow the purpose so plainly. Such a law is currently under challenge in New Jersey...