Word: support
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...other IOP members said they support Pryor's plan...
According to Harpaul A. Kohli '02, who helped organize students in Boston for the protest, the main purpose of the rally was to "demonstrate throughout the country widespread support that the vote in Florida be counted in a fair manner...
Harvard, with the support of the home crowd, needed to win the fourth game to stay alive in the match...
Though friends and family are frequently lumped together in research measuring the link between health and social support, they are distinct and separate in real life. The chief difference? "You choose your friends, but you're stuck with your family" is how an adolescent might put it. That's good news and bad news for friendship. "Friends don't make the demands that family members do. Friends generally won't be asked to give money or nursing care," says sociologist Jan Yager, author of Friendshifts. "They are probably going to mainly have fun together." On the other hand, she notes...
...retired patients suffered not only from loneliness but also from loss of self-worth. To address those problems, she and her colleagues developed a novel program called Experience Corps, which trains teams of seven to 10 retired adults and places them in elementary schools to provide classroom support to teachers in everything from reading and math to violence prevention. The team approach gives schools a critical mass of input from the volunteers. It also gives the volunteers something priceless: a chance to make friends with other older people engaged in the same worthwhile task. The Baltimore, Md., chapter...