Word: support
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...another light moment, C. Jonathan Gattman '03 offered an amendment to the bill resolving that the council "support the disarmament of America's police force...
Eskew, Shrum and senior adviser Marla Romash set about fixing the message. They quit polling nationally and began focusing on what mattered to Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire. While they found general support for the things Gore stood for--and for President Clinton as well--they were shocked by how little people knew about Gore. So in mid-October they hit the airwaves of New Hampshire and Iowa with a 60-sec. commercial designed to fill in the basics: Gore had a family, had been in Vietnam, had worked as a journalist. The ads were broadcast for weeks before...
...successful operation left Kadriu looking something like himself again, albeit with a pale flap across his face. For the moment, living in an apartment block in Manchester occupied entirely by Kosovar refugees, Kadriu seems a happy man. Valbona tends their new baby and has a support network of other young ethnic Albanian women around...
...consider myself a feminist, which means that I support increased funding for breast-cancer research, cheer at Allison Janney's breakthrough performance on TV's The West Wing and don't mind mentioning that I periodically trounce every male of my acquaintance with the temerity to think he can beat me at the basketball game Pop-a-Shot. So what if I have not one but two scars on my right hand from baking corn bread, or if since I bought that yellow paint, I preside over the most cheerful dang kitchen in the tri-state area...
...take a global view of the markets," he says, "whatever sector it is." That may seem like an ambitious agenda, but in a typical week Cheng and Kenny vet roughly half a dozen business ideas. Clients are welcome to move into Incubasia's office and help themselves to logistical support (including Frisbees). The founders also provide expertise and up to $500,000 in financial assistance, plus one of the Internet's most treasured commodities--hype. "Our job is partly to be the evangelist for start-ups," says Kenny. "We have to get the message out." In return, Incubasia gets...