Word: support
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...continuing his commitment to protecting the individual, Bush's plan also provides for paycheck protection for union members. In a testimony before congress, Professor Leo Troy of Rutgers University estimated that union leaders spend between $300 and $500 million in union dues annually to support candidates. This money is spent without permission of union members. Rather than allowing union bosses to control this enormous amount of individuals' money, Bush will ensure that union members' dues are protected from leaders who spend their money without consent. Gore, in contrast, does nothing to protect the enormous amount of unsupervised spending...
...armed forces each year than the next 12 highest-spending countries combined and more than three times what Russia and China spend together in a year. The Army must prove that they are allocating these funds more effectively if the American people are going to show more support for and involvement in the military...
During the primaries, McCain asked Bush why he opposed common-sense reforms to reduce the influence of big corporations and other special interests on the political process. Bush answered that he refused to support reform because it would "hurt the Republican party." In other words, even though huge soft-money donations are poisonous to our democracy, as long as Republicans raise more than Democrats, then it is just fine with Bush...
...Unlike Yugoslavia, where the opposition had thrown its support behind a single candidate, two of the Ivory Coast's largest opposition parties had been banned from participating in the election, and their supporters had boycotted the poll. Opposition leaders say the turnout in Sunday's election was as low as 5 percent of the electorate. The popular opposition leader Alassane Ouattara is leading calls for a new poll. An attempt by former president Henri Konan Bédié to exclude Outtara from the last election had prompted General Gueï's coup, but the general had then held...
...escort of special forces troops, leading a house-to-house search for his disgraced former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos had earlier this week flown home following a failed bid for political asylum in Panama. The release last month of a videotape showing him bribing an opposition legislator to support President Fujimori had precipitated a political crisis that forced the strongman president to call new elections early next year in which he promised...