Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President contended that he has no plans to take Bork out of the running. "I don't think it's decided yet," Reagan said, "and I'm working my head off to make sure we don't lose it." Administration head counters say that 43 Senators favor Bork and deduce that some 17 are still undecided. Last week the President met with five of the fence sitters in the White House. Reagan is hoping he will have at least a couple of weeks for intensive lobbying between Tuesday's scheduled Judiciary Committee vote and a full Senate roll call...
McConnell, now an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School who recently testified in favor of the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork, said that the political debates which have plagued Harvard Law School for several years make it a less attractive place to come and teach...
...Soviets' launch capability took a quantum leap earlier this year when they successfully fired off Energia, a booster as powerful as the mighty Saturn 5, which the U.S. developed for the Apollo program and then scrapped in favor of the shuttle. With Energia, the Soviets can loft 100-ton payloads, vs. a maximum for the U.S. shuttle of 30 tons. That is enough to carry their shuttle, which is under development, or to orbit parts for a space station far larger than Mir, which could be a platform for a manned mission to Mars. Says Dale Myers, deputy administrator...
Monks, it seems, are as subject to the tides of fashion as less holy men. Zurbaran's Caravaggian intensity started to drop out of favor after 1650. What the Spanish church wanted was the sweetness and emotional flexibility of Murillo, and Zurbaran had turned to producing devotional paintings by the score for the provincial market in Latin America. Some of the late madonnas in which he tried to rival Murillo's sentimental grace are sugary beyond belief, and the swarms of putti that infest them are among the ugliest in Spanish...
...vogue for every surface from countertops to foyer floors, and the mixing of bleached and raw-wood textures is common. Formica furniture, in startling shapes and bold solids, is a yuppie favorite. As for colors, earth tones -- drab tans, harvest golds and avocados -- are now out of favor. Yolk yellow and soft pastels are comers, and classic Wedgwood and Williamsburg blue are being revved up to purples and periwinkles. From California to Connecticut, country French decor is most popular...