Word: support
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...Peggy T. Lim '01, the executive editor of Diversity and Distinction, said that student groups can be isolated and that movements like the push for ethnic studies at Harvard "need to come from widespread support...
...Sharpton discussed Bradley's lukewarm reception during the debate. "He just doesn't have the delivery," noted Sharpton. "It's a shame," said West. David Dinkins, who was New York's first black mayor, told TIME Daily: "I like Bradley, he's a good person, but I have to support the man who's got the best chance of getting into the White House, and that's Al Gore...
Experts predict this proposal will be extremely popular with voters - and widespread public support could be crucial to the success of Clinton's plan, particularly in an election year when politicians are more susceptible to constituent pressure. While the President can initiate the legislative aspects of the program without congressional approval, he will have to pitch the budget-straining components - like a $20 million pledge to found the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety - to Capitol Hill...
...most liberal Justices - Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer - voted to hear the case, and that may be an indication that this issue has divided the Court along very definitive lines." Also at issue: whether one or more Justices may view electrocution as cruel and unusual punishment but still support the death penalty in another form, such as lethal injection. The Justices' collective leanings, whatever they may be, will remain a source of speculation indefinitely - or at least until they decide to hear a case that challenges the death penalty...
...firewall came tumbling down. George W. Bush's early endorsement by John Engler, the Michigan governor who's hugely popular among the state's Republicans, was hailed as a backstop against any insurgent anti-Bush campaign. But as the Texas governor has learned the hard way, Republican support isn't everything in an open primary. John McCain won Michigan by turning out an unprecedented number of voters, with a majority of them being independents and Democrats. And, as it turns out, Engler's endorsement may have hurt Bush by helping mobilize Democrats who oppose the Michigan governor. "Shame...