Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Saturday's party was originally planned to honor the project's completion, organizers elected to postpone the ceremonies until later this fall, when the repairs should be done. Most of the inviteddignitaries, including President Bok and RadcliffePresident Matina S. Horner, elected to skip thisparty in favor of the later...
...actual winds were detrimental, the winds of fate seemed to favor the Huskies with three minutes left. Quarterback Jim O'Leary dusted off his throwing arm and completed seven of eight passes--including an eight-yard toss to Brooks Estadt in the end zone--in an 80-yard, 50-second touchdown drive which closed the gap to three points...
...Grooms' exuberance there is no doubt. Not for nothing does he favor the rowdy epithet ruckus in collectively naming his pieces: Ruckus Manhattan, Ruckus Rodeo. His tableaux fairly burst with riotous energy. In them, Jean Dubuffet's idea of making an art raw enough to stand up to the chaos of the street comes home to roost. Every Grooms surface pullulates with caricatural figures, each impacted with manic cartoony verve, rendered as layered plywood cutouts, as silhouettes, as stuffed dolls, as shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks...
Kohl's irascibility reflected the deep ambivalence that attended Honecker's five-day visit. Polls showed that three out of four West Germans were in favor of the trip. But like Kohl, many of them took no enjoyment in providing de facto recognition of East Germany, which Bonn still considers part of a single German nation. They were especially unhappy that such recognition was being awarded through Honecker, architect of the infamous Berlin Wall...
Begun's elderly mother and his wife Inna will also be allowed to leave, along with more than a dozen other Soviet Jews who have been campaigning for exit permits for years. Moscow's move is evidently intended to gain favor with the West in anticipation of a summit this fall between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...