Word: support
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and big oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? George Bush's Social Security and tax-cut plans...
...divest themselves of the right to representative government. Like any representative government the council deserves the right to tax its constituency in order to raise revenue. If the students feel that raise is unfair they can choose not to pay, or they can oust their council representatives who supported the increase. In any case, the council urgently needs funds. It should do everything in its power to pass a hike immediately and seek the support and approval of Dean Lewis and the Faculty...
...opinion, not enough has happened since to justify a reversal. I am saddened that a student newspaper would endorse the profoundly antidemocratic view that Harvard students are incapable of evaluating the good that student groups do--and that our council representatives, having won their titles with dubious support from an apathetic electorate, should make a decision to raise the termbill unilaterally...
...staff is grossly irresponsible in suggesting that students opposed to the termbill should simply refuse to participate. By that argument, there is no need for a termbill increase, as those who support it could instead write $30 checks to the council treasury. Similarly, if no students would be harmed by a hike in a voluntary termbill, the council should maximize its revenue by raising the fee until it could no longer convince students to pay. By portraying the termbill as a purely individual affair, the staff forgets that it represents a common obligation that we as students and beneficiaries...
...George W. Bush knows where his support is coming from. Looking out over a white-tie crowd of "have and have-mores," he declared, "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base...