Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider a precipitate pull-out from Viet Nam the best way to settle the war. In Cambridge, Mass., with the last absentee ballots from the Nov. 7 election finally counted, a war referendum showed 17,742 opposed to U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam v. 11,349 in favor. The 3-to-2 margin against withdrawal was roughly the same as the one piled up by San Francisco voters last month. In ivied wards around Harvard and M.I.T., one of the nation's strongest dovecotes, the vote was surprisingly close-4,108 to 3,134 for withdrawal; beyond Harvard Square...
...Doubtless a man of his drive, dedication, and desire to win-whether at chess, squash or disputes over great public issues-feels an emotional anchor to his job and to seeing the war through. But McNamara is also supremely rational; his reason could not ignore the logic in favor of a change in jobs. Thus, while his heart said stay, his mind said...
...with all its economic ills and un-Eu-ropean ways of doing business would be to destroy the Common Market, he said. Europe and Britain are "incompatible." However, De Gaulle added generously, France would be glad to consider some form of second-class associate membership for Britain to "favor commercial exchanges...
...than $10,000. Not only are subsidies a cause of rising food prices, but it makes little sense for the Government to pay farmers to produce less when hunger stalks half the world. A poll of 5,000 farmers by the influential Farm Journal showed that 63% of them favor an end to price supports...
...Committee on Educational Policy aproved the above motion at its regular meeting, November 22, 1967, ten in favor, none opposed, the Chairman not voting...