Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Buffeted by the initial support of Vice President Gore, several drug makers recently looked poised to withhold information that would enable countries too poor to pay for the drugs to manufacture their own medicines and pay a licensing fee to the drug companies. Gore, caught off guard by the fury of gay rights activists and African protesters, backtracked and is now firmly entrenched in the U.N. effort to bring affordable drugs to the developing world. While some kind of compromise will probably be reached between the diplomats and drug companies, says Dowell, it's unclear what the terms will...
...abuses towards women are well known--they have lost the right to work, attend school or leave the house without their entire bodies and faces covered. This has been particularly cruel considering that several decades of war have left many widows who are now banned from working to support their families...
...year-old boy to his father in Cuba by its stated deadline of January 14. And while Burton, a legislative ally of anti-Castro senator Jesse Helms, could be expected to find some way to both keep the boy in the country and make some political hay for himself, support came from less expected quarters. Saturday's example: New Hampshire senator Bob Smith, a member of the Senate committee that oversees the INS, who took time out of his busy schedule sorting through the ruins of his abortive presidential run to visit with Elian and his relatives in Miami...
...never was the star person, but she was always the best support," he said...
...popularity of the Chechnya campaign has made Putin the hot favorite in presidential elections scheduled for March, but the specter of mounting Russian casualties in a Caucasian quagmire could eat away at his support. Still, suspending the assault - out of a sudden concern for the city's civilian population after six weeks of indiscriminate bombing - doesn't necessarily eliminate the risk. Russian generals have already conceded that Chechen forces are actively harassing their troops deep inside areas over which Moscow has ostensibly established control. Which means that right now there's no politically safe way forward - or back...