Word: support
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...made a promise to the school council," said committee member Nancy Walser of the CRLS parent and teacher association. "They would support the restructuring. One of the caveats was that we would let them determine their own budget...
...Wage Campaign has spent many nights this year knocking on doors and talking to students about poverty on our campus. In my experience, no one finds the issue boring. In fact, it's difficult to find people who won't talk for a few minutes, sign a petition in support of a living wage and call their roommates over to do the same. This is because, despite administrative attempts to sterilize injustice with bad prose about committees, it's obvious to the thinking human beings in our community that the living wage debate is about horrible working conditions and human...
...profitable) ability to choose the lawyers themselves, used their full political influence to get the bill killed. As a result of the judges' lobbying efforts, many members of the legislature, including one of the bill's original co-sponsors, feigned ignorance of the bill's provisions and dropped their support for the measure. Bush agreeably followed with a veto, saying that the changes were too "drastic" and judges were "better able to assess the quality of legal representation" than county officials. He also stated that the requirement that the state release suspects who had not been assigned a lawyer after...
...quicksand (don't fight it, float on it); how to survive if your parachute fails to open (if a fellow skydiver is nearby--and that's one big if--grab him); and for those who share Pedro Almodovar's concerns, how to deliver a baby in a moving vehicle (support the baby's head and tie the umbilical cord with a shoelace...
Barry Levine represents Hinckley and, as one might expect from his attorney, is passionate in support of Hinckley's day-trips. "John Hinckley is profoundly remorseful," Levine told me. "He regrets this event more than anything. He is haunted by what he did--more so than when he was sick and didn't fully understand what he had done. Now he understands the stark horror of his actions...