Word: disfavored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failing to uncover Ochoa's drug operation. It is possible that there are more firings to come. But an editorial signed by Castro stated that Abrantes was taking an inevitable rap for the corruption that transpired on his watch. In recent months the Interior Ministry has fallen into disfavor for not halting a sharp rise in crime and official corruption...
Skeptics were obliged to note that the conspicuously misnamed organization had long since begun to run out of gas. Moreover, thanks to the gaudy peccadilloes of televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart, TV preachers today provoke almost as much disfavor as liberals...
JUST A COUPLE OF WORDS IN HONOR OF MR. DE MOLIERE. First produced 16 years ago by Anatoli Efros, this program based on Mikhail Bulgakov's works fell into disfavor because Culture Ministry bureaucrats disapproved of director Efros' and leading actor Yuri Lyubimov's liberal views...
...skillfully written account. Boyer, who spent ten months as media critic for the CBS Morning News in 1985, is now TV reporter for the New York Times. One subject on which he is better, oddly, is Ed Joyce. Boyer lucidly describes the missteps that caused Joyce to fall into disfavor with his staff. Soon after becoming news president, for instance, Joyce tried unsuccessfully to move Sandy Socolow, the respected former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, from the London bureau to Tel Aviv. The attempt, which Socolow balked at, "left a bitter taste" with staffers...
...order, the State University of New York College at New Paltz handed Feltsman a teaching post at $80,000 a year, the powerful Columbia Artists agency lined up more than 50 engagements, and there was a concert at the White House. Almost as quickly as he had fallen into disfavor, Feltsman, 35, soared to international celebrity...