Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mosteller spoke in favor of Harvard's joining the Project and recommended that it reach a decision within the next 50 days...
...Service Act of 1967 expires, and Nixon hopes to create a military of volunteers. There are strong arguments on either side of the proposal. There are those opposed who warn that it could create an elite corps of killers, dangerously isolated from the rest of American society. Those in favor of the volunteer scheme, by far the majority, claim with considerable reason that it would help cut military waste and rekindle pride in those who serve. Naturally enough, among those most enthusiastic about the idea are America's draft-age youth...
Southern Cog. At week's end, Scott had at least 16 of the 22 votes he needed for victory. With a strong record in favor of civil rights, the Pennsylvanian attracted virtually all of the liberal faction-New York's Jacob Javits and Charles Goodell, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Illinois' Charles Percy, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, and others. Yet Scott's record has not been so liberal as to make him completely unacceptable to conservatives. He passed the Administration's loyalty test, for example, by voting...
...forthcoming as he tries to reply to a second allegation. The Judiciary Committee has learned that the judge, who sat on a 1967 case involving the Brunswick Corp., bought stock now valued at $18,000 between the time of the argument and the release of the decision in favor of the company. His friends see nothing wrong with his purchase and point out that he was only one of 48 who bought Brunswick shares from the same broker at the time. They also note that no substantial price fluctuations occurred between the decision and its disclosure, and that...
Even the proponents of legalization favor tight regulation of marijuana: no sales to children under 18, no advertising, laws against driving under its influence, federal quality controls, severe penalties for illegal pushing, and excise taxes to further discourage impecunious youthful purchasers. Such a policy would roughly parallel the nation's present attitude toward alcohol and tobacco, and one tobacco company executive confides: "A cigarette concern would have to be pretty stupid if it weren't looking into marijuana...