Word: support
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...been the president of Serbia and then of the new Yugoslavia, which consists of Serbia and the much smaller republic of Montenegro. His popularity has been declining throughout the 1990s, hitting all-time lows last year after the defeat in the Kosovo conflict. He now has the support of only 20 to 25 percent of the population...
From a handful of radicals at a university, "Otpor" has grown into an organization with 40,000 activists in less than a year, despite constant threats, arrests and violence. By fighting violence with non-violence and the politics of fear and repression with humor, they have found support among the older population. You can hear their slogan everywhere: in the streets, in schools, on soccer fields...
...said. It was Renee who knew it would be the best thing. "We're a really close family," Renee said as she sat with Lucy's fragile hand in hers last July. "It wasn't really a hard decision because we knew she'd need the love and support of her family...
These displays are rarely spontaneous. In Temple, Texas, for example, the No Pray, No Play group has a toll-free number (Press one for T shirts and merchandise; press two for media kits) to gin up support for the high school in the Texas town of Santa Fe that provoked the Supreme Court ban on student-led prayers last June. Response to the campaign has been mixed: some residents are eager to push the limits of the decision, but others resent agenda-minded outsiders who invite tens of thousands of people to attend home games and recite the Lord...
They didn't miss much. The document suffers from incomplete source materials presented with evident bias. It blames the administration for souring U.S.-Russian relations by pursuing NATO expansion and National Missile Defense, both of which Republicans support even more fervently than Democrats. It repeatedly mentions Russia's objections to unilateral U.S. action but then criticizes the administration for pursuing consensus-building with Moscow and others. Those contradictions, combined with breathless, vituperative language, obscure valid points, like the administration's studious disregard for Russian atrocities in Chechnya and its failure to achieve any new arms control agreements with the Russians...