Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...systems that force every recruit to start off in the lowest rank discourage the educated and the enterprising from becoming policemen. Every would-be police chief has to serve a menial apprenticeship; no one from outside, regardless of his qualifications, can come in at the middle. Some, like Reddin, favor lateral entry, commonplace in every other organization, but none have succeeded in changing the ossified structure of the police establishment. Pay is equally out of date; the median for patrolmen in big cities...
...Parliament. The electoral system for selecting the 150 members of Parliament is designed to give big parties the edge by allotting them nonelected members on the basis of their strength at the polls. The junta naturally intends to organize its own party, which it is confident will gain enough favor with Greek voters to take advantage of such a provision. The constitution makes room for new blood in Greek politics by barring many old-time Greek politicians, including Andreas Papandreou, 49, the son of onetime Premier George Papandreou, who now lives in Sweden...
...word in person from De Gaulle, and their exchange of correspondence was released to the press. Then Pompidou went to a caucus of the newly elected Gaullist Deputies in the National Assembly. Most of them were angry that a vote getter as effective as Pompidou had been sidetracked in favor of a man who is anything but a crowd pleaser. But Pompidou, though he was bitterly hurt by De Gaulle's treatment, remained loyal. "It is not for us to question his decisions," Pompidou told the Deputies. "It is for the President, and him alone, to name the Premier...
...issue of it. Sympathy with China, on the other hand, has declined rapidly as Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates had its practical side. Standing foursquare in favor of good government, they gave the Japanese voter a breath of his current enthusiasm in politics-"fresh air"-without making him go through a disruptive housecleaning...
...free speech and assembly. Said Frankel: "Arguments like this are at best useless (at worst deeply pernicious) nonsense in courts of law. It is surely non-sense of the most literal kind to argue that a court of law should subordinate the 'rule of law' in favor of more 'fundamental principles' of revolutionary action designed forcibly to oust governments, courts and all. This self-contradictory sort of theory-all decked out in the forms of law with thick papers, strings of precedent, and the rest-is ultimately at the heart of the plaintiffs' case...