Word: favor
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Several other candidates are not endorsed by the CCA, but have expressed strong positions in favor of rent control. Among these candidates, James M. Greene, Paul J. Johnson Jr., and Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. deserve serious consideration...
Semonoff said it is her role "to try and get a consensus in favor of the legal position correct in each case." She said she hopes Healy's selection of a fifth representative is "speedy" because the process "operates much better" with a full board...
When companies do buy new gear, they are rapidly downsizing, junking their mainframes in favor of smaller, more flexible workstations, made by companies like Sun Microsystems. Because of this shift, mainframe sales are expanding only about 5% annually, less than half the rate of a few years ago. Says Rod Canion, president of Houston-based Compaq: "The rules are changing, and it's very difficult for the big-computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin...
...person, one-vote majority rule in a unitary state. Such an arrangement is "unfair" and unacceptable, says De Klerk. "Afrikaners won't agree to that until they are militarily defeated," says a senior diplomat in Pretoria, "and the balance of power in the country right now does not favor revolution...
Leaders of the domestic Mass Democratic Movement are in a quandary: they tend to favor negotiations because the process might lead to government concessions that are unforeseen now, but they do not want to go to the table if their presence offers nothing but a public relations success for De Klerk by making him look like a peacemaker. Ramaphosa, head of the black National Union of Mineworkers, concedes that the government does appear to be seeking change. "One could say they are willing to usher in a new South Africa," he says, "but some of us have serious doubts because...