Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years after the highly publicized divorce, the court ruled in favor of John Fedders's argument that his ex-wife, Charlotte, must share some of the blame for the beatings she suffered. She, the court decided, denied him emotional support during his times of depression. In a Kafkaesque fashion, the official went on to award John Fedders 25 percent of the proceeds from Charlotte's new book. The book, Shattered Dreams, deals mostly with physical and emotional abuse she and her children suffered during her marriage...
Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38 told his press secretary to say, "If she [the reporter] doesn't know who I favor, she shouldn't be on the staff of The Crimson." Administration sources speculated that Weinberger favors Harvard. Weinberger was president of The Crimson...
...neighborhood of the capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts that besmirches their view of a nearby hillside...
...discussion," Gorbachev called for a "palpable breakthrough" in strategic- arms reductions and in "barring weapons from outer space" -- a reference to the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. There have been recent indications, however, that the Soviets might soften their die-hard opposition to space-based defenses in favor of gaining some predictability about how and when such systems might be deployed. Having held fast on that issue last month while Gorbachev first refused, then agreed to set a summit date, the Reagan Administration just may find a new practicality in the Kremlin. After all, if the Soviets are becoming...
...college would like Lawrence to have a construction plan for the new campus ready by mid-January, Harold said. Ball said that site preparation could begin as soon as the judge rules in the city's favor...