Word: support
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...campaign has been recently marred by allegations of corruption. Most recently, it is likely that Fujimori tampered with the ballots. When "official" election returns suggested a Fujimori victory--even though exit polls 12 hours earlier indicated that the Peruvian president would not have a required majority of electoral support--the international community responded in uproar...
...reduce national hyperinflation in 1990 to the current 3.7 percent, it came at the price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut Fujimori's already dwindling support base...
After the meeting, members said they weren't sure whether the council would pass the amendment--or, for that matter, whether they personally would support...
...more contentious of the changes included a proposal to extend the council's support of free speech to include the right to assembly. Practically, such a change might make it unconstitutional for the council to come out against a neo-Nazi rally in the Yard, council members said...
...Institutional support is really important, that was a problem with 'Guys and Dolls.' There were so many things we had to figure out," she says. "Somebody who is continually with the space would be a big help...