Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...candidates have been boasting of their support among the young voters, though two Republicans, Steve Forbes and John McCain, have been particularly vocal about the extent of their college operations in their campaigns. The Republicans have more at stake in attracting young volunteers, campaign officials said...
...keep his own coalition together through negotiating a deal with Syria that involves exchanging control of the Golan for peace and security; he has also pledged to put the issue before his electorate in a referendum. Although opinion polls show that only 41 percent of Israelis currently support handing over the territory, Mr. Barak could take heart from the fact that only 20 percent supported handing back the Sinai Peninsula at a comparable stage in the 1978 peace negotiations with Egypt. "Whether it be to the Egyptians, the Palestinians or the Syrians, Israelis are always opposed to giving away land...
Although a poll conducted by the Wilderness Society indicates that more than 68 percent of Arizonans support the President's decision, TIME Denver correspondent Dick Woodbury says there are still plenty of "rank-and-file, conservative activist ranchers who are upset they weren't consulted before the announcement was made." And while a spokesperson from the Department of the Interior insists that only logging, clear-cutting and mining will be banned from the affected land, there are plenty of ranchers worried about their grazing rights. "This is a symptom of some westerners' inherent antipathy toward Washington and people from...
...challenge, he added, is to integrate administrative support for a consulting operation into "a more traditional academic structure...
Coordinating something like this would require widespread cooperation. But if the measure had the support of Neil, Harry and Fentrice, it just might be in the realm of possibility...