Word: supportive
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Having picked green-leaning Al Gore as his running mate, Clinton won the 1992 election with support from environmentalists. But when he tried in 1993 to raise royalties for grazing and mining on public lands, he was faced down by Senators from Western states led by Democrat Max Baucus of Montana. After that rebuff, green issues disappeared from his calendar. It wasn't until 1995, when he began vetoing antienvironmental measures pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, that he saw that the public would support a green President. "That was when he realized the people wanted wild land," says Pope...
Since Professor Otnes has seen it all--from kids who receive generic items out of "gift closets" to manipulative givers whose cards say "Call me the minute you get this!"--I hoped she would support my plan this season to cut off my family entirely...
...matter who wins, the focus will be on measures that have enjoyed bipartisan support. The main ones: reducing the estate tax, eliminating the marriage penalty, expanding IRA and 401(k)-plan savings. Further down the list is fixing the horribly crafted alternative minimum...
...farmers and small-business owners. The top "death-tax" rate of 55% may also be cut, possibly to under 40%. This would be a fun battle to watch. Those who favor repeal don't want to merely chip away at the tax because as fewer people pay it, support for repeal erodes...
...Netanyahu's dramatic comeback bid was derailed by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which was prepared to support him once again for prime minister, but not at its own expense. The party's 17 seats give it a kingmaking - and -breaking - role in the fractious legislature, and that's powerful leverage for a minority party. But polls indicate that it would lose between four and six seats to Likud in a parliamentary election right now. Both parties draw support primarily from immigrants from Arab countries, and analysts predict that in an election focused almost exclusively on peace and security issues...