Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every session of Parliament in the past decade has hotly debated the controversial recommendations of a government commission that came out in favor of relaxing the laws against homosexuality. When the suggestions were first introduced as legislation, the outcry was so shrill that the bill was overwhelmingly defeated, amid cries that the whole idea was "scandalous," "filthy" and "bestial." But in ten years, the mood in Parliament - and in the country - has changed. Last week the House of Commons passed the bill over token opposition, and it will soon go on the statute books...
...Wehner who in 1959 rammed through the Socialists' far-reaching "Bad Godesberg Plan," which swept Marx aside, renounced class warfare and came out in favor of progressive capitalism. It was he who worked out the details of the coalition government with the Christian Democrats, then talked rebellious party members into accepting it. It was he also who conceived the series of television debates, scheduled to begin this year, that would have been the first public political dialogue between East and West Germany-if Ulbricht had not stepped in at the last minute to overrule Communist participation...
...friendly magistrate." As a result, the publishers are now practically begging the government to prosecute-with a jury. Their hope is obviously to give the book nationwide legal approval. Watchdog Black is all for it. As he sees it, this time a jury could not help ruling in his favor...
With the Hertz campaign only seven weeks old, cash-register results so far are inconclusive, but Ally is pleased that mail is running 9-1 in favor of the ads. Like Doyle Dane, he admits that what he calls "an eyeball-to-eyeball, nose-to-nose" confrontation will be good publicity for the entire $500-million-a-year car-rental industry. It should also be rewarding for the agencies. Avis' annual ad budget has risen from $1,200,000 to $4,500,000 since the No. 2 campaign began, and Hertz's outlay is certain to increase...
After listening to Meselson inveigh against biological warfare, one wonders how anyone anywhere could be in favor of it. Meselson says it is militarily inconvenient, socially disastrous, and no more humane than any other form...