Word: favor
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Wallace calculates nonetheless that he needs the statehouse as a power base from which to launch a third-party presidential bid in 1968. After he lost a marathon legislative battle to amend the constitution in his favor last month, most people concluded that he would go after John Sparkman's U.S. Senate seat next year instead. This is still a possibility, though Wallace has let associates know that he prefers to "continue the fight from here...
...father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident directors had forced him out of office; of a stroke; in Royal Oak, Mich...
...United States has refrained from endorsing any specific plan, but officials are known to favor deliberate creation through the 103-nation International Monetary Fund, of a new unit of exchange -- a kind of demand deposit with a world central bank -- which IMF officials could distribute to meet the needs of world trade...
Their job, as he sees it, is to relate population control to the "Love Thy Neighbor" precept by showing people that "they aren't doing their neighbors a favor by cluttering up the earth...
Joseph Lee allowed himself to be identified with Mrs. Hicks, despite his August vote in favor of busing. Lee has always been fairly outspoken in his opposition to the principle of racial balancing, but he has his own scheme for satisfying the state requirements. Dubbed "scatteration," the plan calls for shipping Negro children to suburban schools, where Boston would pay their tuition. Theoretically this would halt the exodus of white Boston residents to the lily-white suburbs...