Word: support
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...York. A barrage of bad news about the state budget gaps delivered the final blow to an environmental bond issue of nearly $2 billion. That was an embarrassment for Governor Mario Cuomo, who made support of the project a centerpiece of his own successful re-election campaign. Now money for recycling, land preservation and other programs the bond would have financed will have to come from a reluctant state legislature or higher local taxes...
...public opinion still seems solidly behind Bush. But he risks eroding that support when he muddles explanations of his policy. He has declared, for example, that he would be willing to accept a peaceful settlement in which Saddam withdraws from Kuwait with his military intact. Yet the President has also compared Saddam to Hitler, who is identified in the public mind as a ruler so vicious that the only solution is to destroy him. Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons...
What opportunities for wistful gallantry this presents the actor who plays Cyrano, and how tenderly Depardieu seizes them. His peasant frame is the perfect support for that nose, which seems less a theatrical device, more a natural outgrowth of Cyrano's spirit than it does when puttied on more lissome leading men. Depardieu's Cyrano has a slowness and stubbornness that make one realize how willed his dashing public personality is, how much it is a way of deflecting attention from a self he finds shameful. This imparts a particular poignancy to the final sequence, in which he at last...
...contrast with male-oriented Islam, the active membership in the typical black Christian church today is 70% female. But there are few women ministers, and apparently that is the way laywomen want it. "Though congregations are run by women in support roles, those women say they want to see a man as an authority figure," says James Costen, president of Atlanta's Interdenominational Theological Center. The issue may generate more controversy as the clergy shortage grows. For now, ambitious women preachers are joining white denominations or establishing their own independent congregations...
...State Jock Covey said in Washington last week, "but we also expect others to bear theirs." Since mid-September, when Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady circled the globe raising funds, 54 countries have made pledges totaling $20 billion, which will be divided between military support and economic assistance to states in the region...