Word: favor
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Several members of RCCC, plus councilors Saundra Graham and Alice Wolf, testified in favor of the project, while others complained that the two-part development project would further crowd a neighborhood where open space is already scarce. They called the promised playground and garden small compensation for the loss of the lot, which would be built over...
...foremost opportunity; Mikhail Gorbachev seems clearly to want an arms-control pact, and soon. To get one, some advisers are urging the President to overcome his reluctance to crack heads and insist on getting the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom into harmony. Reagan's most recent decision has been in favor of Pentagon hawks who are out to kill any chance of arms control. The President has decided at least tentatively to adopt a "broad" interpretation of the 1972 antiballistic-missile treaty that would permit wide-scale testing of his Strategic Defense Initiative in space. Not only will this position anger...
...participation in the Iran initiative appears to have been minimal: he was present at a meeting with Reagan last year during which the idea of trading arms for hostages was discussed, and, according to George Shultz's account, did not oppose the notion. But he was more generally in favor of the strategy of using arms shipments to establish a relationship with "moderate" elements in Iran. Although Bush is one of four statutory members of the NSC, the conclusion was that he had no management responsibility in the affair. Said Member Edmund Muskie: "There were at most three meetings...
Writing the lead opinion, however, Justice William Brennan maintained that the Alabama troopers' discrimination was "pervasive, systematic and obstinate." That pattern, he said, "created a profound need and a firm justification for the race-conscious relief." In the past the court has looked with favor only on affirmative-action plans that minimize penalties to the innocent, but the harm to white officers in this case, wrote Brennan, was limited to the time necessary to achieve the integration goal and so "only postpones the promotions of qualified whites...
When a judge ruled in the tribe's favor in February, Wambui Otieno obtained an order blocking the burial pending an appeal this month. Wangari Mathai, chairman of Kenya's National Council of Women, last week gathered signatures for a petition that calls on parliament to safeguard the rights of surviving spouses...