Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics as "the Dirty Digger," tangling with Ted Kennedy, the controversial liberal Senator tagged "the Fat Boy" in the opinion pages of Murdoch's Boston Herald. Co-stars included three equally colorful New York politicians, who look upon Murdoch's New York Post with a mixture of fear and favor: Daniel Moynihan, the professorial Senator up for re-election; Alfonse D'Amato, his scrappy colleague; and Ed Koch, the loquacious mayor who is ever eager to jump into a fray. The issues: truth, justice and the American Way. And power...
Gary Hart thus joins a prickly cast of characters, among them Senator Joe McCarthy, Spiro Agnew and Ollie North, who take on the media, and by doing so prolong their stay in the public eye. The press (which also competes for the public's favor) has to prove that it is being fair to its critics, and has done so lately by giving Gary Hart acres of publicity he couldn't buy. USA Today reports that in the four days after Hart resumed his candidacy, network evening television gave him 39.31 minutes of coverage, while allotting George Bush...
...more than a year, lower fines and selective enforcement of speeding laws had been gaining favor in many states. In April, when Congress permitted all states to raise the speed limit on rural interstate highways to 65 m.p.h., 38 states chose...
...demonstrating against the election. He worked hard to keep his campaign image of the ordinary man, urging a delegation of garbage collectors to call him Mister instead of the customary Your Excellency. But his ultimate sacrifice may have been giving up the traditional presidential vehicle, a bulletproof Cadillac, in favor of the far more modest Korean-made Grandeur sedan...
...renegotiate certain provisions. Although Reagan is expected to have little trouble getting the two-thirds majority needed to ratify the INF accord, such likely opponents of the treaty as North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop may aim to scuttle it by mustering a majority in favor of amendments that sound reasonable but would prove lethal...