Word: support
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...pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of Veepdom: do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York Times examined his stint at Halliburton, it found that he was more an ambassador attracting business through government contacts than a hands-on executive...
...wrong" and promised to build a "culture of life." The next President, Gore warns, could appoint as many as four Supreme Court Justices, enough to bury Roe v. Wade forever. Just in case any swing-voting women out there are taking abortion rights for granted, Gore noted that "I support a woman's right to choose; my opponent does...
...reasons for opting for the drug. Asian women were twice as likely as others to choose mifepristone because they considered it safer; white women were twice as likely to use it as nonwhites because they considered it more natural. More educated women chose it because they wanted to show support for broader choices and because they wanted to avoid surgery. Nearly all the women in the study found the drug highly acceptable and would recommend it to others...
This is a controversial idea. When Newt Gingrich in 1994 advocated bringing back state-run orphanages for children most at risk of becoming criminals, he was ridiculed and called a racist. But since then, a movement toward residential learning has been quietly gaining steam--and often wins support from the parents of troubled youth. Residential schools focusing on needy children have opened in Philadelphia, West Trenton, N.J., and Washington, and three pilot programs have started in Minnesota...
...religious liberty is the unbending separation of church and state. Your article about organized prayer at football games suggested that the students in North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas believe they are being defiant when they pray on game night. There is nothing defiant about their behavior. I strongly support the right of all people to express their religious faith. As soon as a school begins to aid in their efforts, however, the school officially endorses the underlying message, and the constitutional separation of church and state is breached. JOE HAVERMANN Wildwood...