Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...department might also be able to review federal money affecting buildings nominated for the list, Weslowski said. She added the main support for the new law comes from owners of commercial property who can suffer "tax disincentives" if they tamper with registered property...
...will not only be "chairman of the board" of the U.S. In a sense, he will lead a kind of multinational enterprise the likes of which this world has never imagined. From Tokyo to Turin, business executives who have helped fashion economies heavily dependent upon international trade gave their support to Reagan, not a few of them half jesting that they are so bound to the U.S. that they should be allowed to vote. Now they wait with hope and considerable caution for an executive reorganization in the "home office" in Washington that, with luck and a bit of wisdom...
...Amman for backing non-Arab Iran against Arab Iraq. For nearly a decade, Syrian President Hafez Assad has feuded on and off with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. So great is Assad's anti-Baghdad antagonism that he was willing to risk isolation in the Arab world with his support of Iran. The fact that the summit was in Jordan, Iraq's staunchest Arab ally, also displeased Assad...
...university such as Harvard, whose traditions, food, social life, arts, and academics are so overwhelmingly Eurocentric, there is little institutional support for Asian Americans to explore and clarify our own distinct identities and experiences. Many of Harvard's Asian students come from suburbs where we were among the few Asians in our neighborhoods. We have had few role models from whom to gather pride in our history and heritage--we learn to relate exclusively to the majority experience and wish to be white. For those of us who have grown up in Asian communities our alienation and culture shock...
...only support for Asian Americans at Harvard has come from the Third World organizations here and other Asian American groups in the Boston area. Harvard did not recognize Asian Americans as a minority group with a history of discrimination until 1976-77. Four years later in his 1980 Commencement Address on minorities at Harvard, President Bok failed once to mention Asian Americans. Asian Americans, however, have been active in the anti-Bakke, divestiture, and Afro-American Studies movements and have played a leading role in working for a Third World Center...