Word: disfavored
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...February Governor Herter, with barely half his term completed, will have to interrupt long-range legislative and administrative plans to commence his quest for re-election. With biennial campaigns the Governor may never plan without a cautious appraisal of the electorate. Beneficial long-run projects which might win immediate disfavor must go to the wastebasket. Only with four-year tenure can the Governor develop for the General Court the coherent and integrated plans that are prerequisite for far-sighted legislation...
Further information indicated yesterday that the change did not reflect any direct or indirect administration disfavor with the present General Education program, but only a desire to see it represented in the future by a widely recognized scholar and permanent faculty member...
...attack on Mikoyan: his ministry had been obliged to carry the burden of Malenkov's promised "sharp upsurge" in consumer goods. With the recent hardening of Soviet foreign policy towards the West as a result of the approaching rearmament of Germany, the consumer-goods policy has fallen into disfavor...
...Jordan (whose British-trained Arab Legion is the Arab world's finest army) and its army base on the island of Cyprus. Faced with getting out of the Suez, the British at first talked of expanding Cyprus, but ran afoul of Cyprus' lack of harbors and the disfavor of the Cypriotes. The Libya pact was the answer, and an adroit...
...case against Collier's Bucklin Moon [TiME, April 27] is the most exasperating of a long list of outrageous indignities. Do we Americans realize the dire condition of intellectual restraint now exercised in this country of ours? Not only can every crank discredit the object of his disfavor by labeling him a Communist, but it has now become extremely unwise for anyone to go to the victim's defense...