Word: support
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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That is why the African National Congress, which 84 percent of Black South Africans support according to a recent poll reported in the New York Times, asks all companies to withdraw from South Africa. They realize that only through a combination of international isolation and internal struggle will apartheid be overcome...
...thrust of his program we support," said the official, adding that Rappaport's estimates of the savings under his plan were substantially correct. "I think we're generally working towards what he's calling...
...repent my own mistakes of judgment about what to support. Too often we relied on administrative means rather than permitting events to develop in a creative direction. We were too concerned with what to restrain, what to forbid. I shared responsibility for that form of governing, but now I'm against it. We have to show tolerance toward change. Do these changes really affect communist ideology? In my opinion...
...self-assured Wise, who contributed handsomely to political campaigns, enjoyed the support of such influential officeholders as Colorado's Democratic Congressman Timothy Wirth, who later graduated to the Senate. Wise served two terms on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, which regulates thrifts in the region. He even served as chairman of the regulatory policy committee for the U.S. League, the most influential S&L lobbying group. Openly, the League poured millions of dollars into political campaigns through its PAC. Says Edwin Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: "I don't think...
...officials who built in financial cushions so generous that they acted as counterincentives to swift resolutions of the thrifts' problems. While investors were able to apply their new tax write-offs to other businesses, for example, some of the deals did not require them to provide adequate capital to support the faltering institutions...