Word: supported
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...battle plan at hand. During the hour and a half-long session, Ric Keller, a lawyer elected to represent Florida's 8th district, scribbled away on a faxed copy of a bill he was proposing. He wants to increase Pell Grants, and he says he has "broad bipartisan support." The first day Congress is in session, he says, he'll throw the legislation in the hopper...
...ballots cast last week, nearly 100 were write-in votes. The council's unique voting system allowed voters to support a write-in candidate without compromising their favorite candidate...
...continued in the current mini-war, in spite of the incredible efforts by Israel and some of its neighbors toward peace over the past number of years. Given the fact that the Arab League joined together in an emergency meeting to blame Israel for the fighting, offer funds to support the Palestinians and call for the end of all steps toward normalization of relations with Israel, it is quite incredulous to suggest that this is not an "Arab-Israeli" conflict...
Hussein's most egregious error, however, is his inflammatory assertion that American support for Israel stems from a racist understanding of Middle East ethnicity that "dehumanizes" the Palestinian people. This false accusation is an insult to all of us who have suffered from racism and other forms of ethnic and religious hatred in our nation. Americans support Israel for a number of different reasons. I suspect, however, that primary among them is the fact that despite incredible overtures for peace by Israel, the Palestinians have responded with orchestrated and fatal terror attacks on Israeli citizens and diplomatic statements that have...
...four in the morning that the race was too close to call, that we were in a statistical dead heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting...