Word: support
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Carby, who specializes in African-American literature, said that "overwhelming support" by students, faculty and administrators across the country also contributed to her decision to stay...
...wife made at least nine trips on Keating's planes including three Caribbean getaways. Later McCain would reimburse Keating--after facing national humiliation. But he never returned the profit that his family made on their $350,000 dollar investment in a Keating shopping center. This is Mr. I-support-a-massive-campaign-finance-reform-initiative-and-a-government-not-dominated-by-special-interests? Right...
...students, not unlike other college students, lead complicated lives. As Lewis is fond of saying, students can build these lives around both College institutions as well around personal relationships that have nothing to do with Harvard. Consequently, Lewis argues, the College's role in student life should be to support "localized efforts based around residential or extracurricular life...
...ever since - and its victor on Tuesday suffered a historic defeat at the hands of the black urban poor. The president's authoritarian constitutional proposals (which included the right to summarily dissolve parliament) were rejected by 55 percent of voters, despite Mugabe's attempt to woo his traditional peasant support base with a promise to nationalize the country's 4,000 white-owned commercial farms and turn them over to land-starved black small farmers. Unfortunately for Mugabe, the 25 percent national turnout suggests that rural voters had stayed home in large numbers - the peasantry may make a fine support...
...based his campaign on racial demagoguery, trying to portray a "no" vote as an endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel price hikes. With little prospect of an economic turnabout...