Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguments are overwhelmingly in favor of home rule. What killed it during the last session and may smother it again this year is public indifference. A few national organizations--the AFL-CIO, ADA, and the League of Women Voters--lobbied for home rule, but not vigorously. Except for the NAACP, the national Negro organizations did not exert grass-roots pressure...
There was, however, no constructive criticism in Romney's first major Vietnam address -- and it was chimerical to expect any. What he did was to favor a middle course and project himself into the middle of the Republican Party. He warned against "massive military escalation in Vietnam," but emphasized that the United States' military effort "must succeed." In short, it was the President's policy...
Romney was never one to buck consensus opinions or to favor unpopular policies, and this speech was no exception. His stand perfectly suited his apolifical image. Romney always has preferred to campaign on his pure character and successful administration rather than on policies, and he was very much in character when he stated at Hartford that the war should not be made a matter of partisan politics...
...reach a verdict out of the depths of your own mind and conscience, aren't you? You wouldn't let someone sway you?" Prosecutor Martin needs twelve unanimous jurors to win a verdict; Defender Getty needs only one stubborn holdout to hang the jury-and retrials often favor the defendant...
...crab. And selling turned out to be the big problem. "I found there wasn't one chef in a hundred who would bother to try it," says Wakefield. To stir up enthusiasm, he hired a Manhattan promoter who dumped the original wishy-washy "Ocean Frosted" brand name in favor of "Wakefield's" Alaska King Crab Meat. The change worked, and Wakefield turned his first profit ($73,000) in 1952; according to preliminary estimates his company, which is now publicly owned, earned $450,000 last year on sales...