Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change his campaign style. "It is a proud thing to be an American," Humphrey said in Philadelphia, but the pride was somehow lost in a jumble of high-blown rhetoric. With frequent references to the Depression, the Vice President, who styles himself a "man of tomorrow," comes out in favor of liberty, peace, justice, free expression, knowledge, public accountability, meaningful work, open opportunity, public compassion, movement and free association, privacy, rest and recreation and patriotism-everything but the "politics of joy," a theme now absent from Humphrey's oratory...
...Your excellent article on guns referred to my study of homicide in Philadelphia in 1958 and quoted a statement the National Rifle Association has often used to suggest that I, as a criminologist, favor their position about gun legislation. You further indicated that "Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...personal choice for legislation is to remove all guns from private possession. I would favor statutory provisions that require all guns to be turned in to public authorities. Citizens could be compensated for their loss at a standard rate based on the current value of the weapon. Hunting and sporting clubs could maintain depositories for guns. Members would be able to sign out for their weapons at stipulated times but be required to return them to the depositories...
...President's proposed 26th constitutional amendment is not a new notion. The idea first reached Capitol Hill in 1942, and Eisenhower lost a 1954 bid to lower the nation's voting age by a mere five votes. But the idea seems to be gaining favor. In recent years, polls have found that the majority of the population favors giving 18-year-olds the vote, and L.B.J.'s proposal joins more than 50 similar submissions that have been made to the 90th Congress. The opposition is typified by such stands as that of the New York Daily News...
There is a sort of psychology working in favor of such underestimations. Explains Conrad Jamieson, the vice president and chief economist of Los Angeles' Security First National Bank: "If you underpredict, you can always say, 'Gee, we did even better than I had predicted,' and it's not so bad. But then if you say, 'Well, we didn't do as well as I thought we would,' you look a lot worse...