Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...site impressed me with its self-sufficiency. Solar energy and one small gasoline-powered generator--only periodically turned on-was enough to support...
...movie, Diana Ross (who sings the songs in the film herself, blasphemy of the highest degree as it further robs the audience of the true essence of Lady Day) portrays Billie as a strung-out heroin addict who throws her talent away even though she has the support of a loving husband (Billy Dee Williams) and thousands of appreciative fans...
...little surprised at first sight of Chris sitting there; we talked. "I've got a son to support." She danced with only a little embarrassment. She was pleased when Chris told...
...from a defendant. The court has long made an exception in cases in which the defendant takes the stand, by allowing the use of tainted evidence to attack his credibility. But last week the Justices refused to permit such evidence to impeach the credibility of a witness testifying in support of a Chicago murder defendant. The ruling left some experts scratching their heads and anticipating future criminal cases because the fifth and deciding vote came from Justice Byron White, normally one of the staunchest judicial critics of the exclusionary rule...
...does the money flow in after reordination. The Phillipses support their family of five children on the standard priest's stipend of $500 a month plus the husband's pay as part-time chaplain of a Carmelite convent. Cash is not the only problem in making the adjustment. One wife told Fichter that parishioners, accustomed to celibate clergy, are very demanding and "don't really give much thought to the priest's family." One convert admitted he favors retaining the celibacy rule because "quite honestly, I think that the personal difficulties and family pressures outweigh the benefits" of the married...