Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercial planes. The wavy lines that go across everything aren't so bad. Even the rugs on the walls that separate plebes from those idiots in first class aren't so appalling. But the seats are horrible. The designers have eshewed simple fabrics and normal solid colors in favor of strange shades of brownish green or rusty orange, (or, worse, a combination of both...
NAIPAUL NEVER escapes from a problem which he admits he had as an Oxford student: ignoring real life in favor of "metropolitan material," that undefined something that "the writer" is supposed to write about. The older narrator deplores the romantic fantasies he wrote when he was younger. Yet that is just what the book goes back to after the brief respite of "The Journey": a sappy fantasy of English country life, elaborating on what he already has said in the first section...
...restaurants with 51 or more seats to designated areas. The Beverly Hills ordinance, passed unanimously by the city council, penalizes disobedient smokers -- and restaurants that fail to display no-smoking signs -- with fines of up to $500. Mayor Charlotte Spadaro, whose mail is running 2 to 1 in favor of the ban, views it as similar to laws "against pollution and toxic waste, designed to make the environment safe for everyone...
...names are believed to have the committee's interest: David Nordby, 47, executive vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank; and Silas Keehn, 56, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Both were promising Mellon executives who moved on after Barnes became chairman. One factor that could favor Nordby: colleagues say he is an expert at dealing with bad loans...
...opposition has long criticized the present constitution's indirect method of electing the President. The choice is made by an electoral college of more than 5,000 members, whose votes may be tampered with or bought and whose numbers are weighted by law in favor of the ruling party. Instead, the opposition has stubbornly championed direct elections. It believes that under such a system its candidate would have a chance of defeating a military- supported nominee...