Word: supportive
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...slate. "One observer of the military," Cheney said Wednesday, "had this to say last year: 'Our military faces readiness problems,' he cautioned, 'including falling recruitment, and retention in critical skill areas; aging equipment that costs more to keep operating at acceptable levels of reliability; a need for more support services for a force with a high percentage of married personnel; and frequent deployments...
Besides Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Attorney General Janet Reno, and anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey, Clinton brought along a gaggle of Congressmen, both Republicans and Democrats, to help bolster support for the program. The most notable is one of the president's chief antagonists on Capitol Hill - Dennis Hastert, the Republican House Speaker. Head of a drug sub-committee, Hastert has been to Colombia half a dozen times and was instrumental in passing the aid package. Clinton probably used the time to do some bonding in advance of doing his bit for Al Gore's campaign by vetoing Republican...
GORE 70 --To support Israel --To open up to the Cuban people --To support DNA testing in trials --To allow partial-birth abortions only to save the mother's life --To not attack Bush personally --To make Social Security solvent until 2054 --To cut the crime rate for the next 10 years --To wipe out all special-interest money --To have universal health coverage for children by 2004 --To keep the military the best in the world --To end child labor and protect workers --To not raise the retirement...
...PENGUIN THAT ROARED Linux, the little operating system that could, is catching up with big siblings Windows and Macintosh. Last week high-tech heavyweights IBM and Dell announced new deals to sell Linux servers, and a host of other firms declared their support for Gnome, a Windows-like user interface for Linux. Unlike its stuffier competitors, Linux is free, and was developed collaboratively by an international community of hackers. Also unlike its competitors, it has a funky penguin as a mascot...
...Chelsea received, and modeled, in the village's crowded market square. The village named him "Danmasani Ushhafa" - meaning the most knowledgeable man in the village (a title not bestowed on Vice President Dan Quayle during his 1991 visit to the same place). "I came to Nigeria to express the support of the people of the United States," Clinton told the crowd, penned in by bamboo fences sunk into fresh concrete. "We want to help you build your economy, educate your children and build a better life in all the villages of the country...