Word: support
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...members have warned publicly that the military won't cooperate with an investigation of their former boss. But this no longer intimidates his opponents, for the simple reason that a military coup is no longer a sustainable option. The essential precondition for the last one, after all, was active support from Washington, which saw the elected leftist regime of Salvador Allende as a threat to its regional interests. But the U.S. is no longer in the business of sponsoring coups. And that means the Chilean military - and the former U.S. officials that backed its grab for power - may simply have...
Lieberman, a practicing Modern Orthodox Jew, is upheld by Democrats and Republicans alike as a pillar of morality in the oft-desecrated world of politics. He's the rare politician, his legion supporters say, with both impeccable ethics and a healthy dose of self-denigrating humor. Monday, Lieberman's selection sent ripples of joy through the Jewish community in the Northeast; conservative religious Jews, who have tended recently to support candidates who lean to the right on social issues, reversed themselves and pledged their support to the Gore-Lieberman ticket...
...cents] Amount it cost per taxpayer to support Keyes' campaign...
Marty's windsurf from Dakar, Senegal, to French Guiana took 37 days. He refused even to allow his support boat to tow him while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...
...Guinness credited John Gielgud with nurturing his early career in the '30s, and he played support in all the usual Shakespeare - Osric and the third player in "Hamlet," Aumerle in "Richard II" and Lorenzo in "The Merchant of Venice." The leads, like the two failed stabs at "Hamlet," nudged him further onto the screen - to pay the bills, Guinness always said - and it was in the movies that he became beloved...