Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bigger goal: to warp Middle America's sense of reality in my favor. If I play my cards right, there will come the day that not a single human neuron from Bangor to San Diego will fire unless I say so. I already have a list of trends to manipulate...
...Union was struck last May as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to upgrade the quality of Soviet life. Part of the magazine's expected appeal is that it publishes sewing patterns of its fashion offerings, which Soviet homemakers will be able to copy. Another factor that probably found favor with Moscow's officialdom is that Burda shuns articles on sex and politics, traditional Soviet taboos. At first the new Burda edition will be printed in West Germany, but the plan is to begin printing in Moscow within two years and reach a circulation of 1 million...
Meanwhile in South Africa, the country's Catholic Bishops' Conference, which last May came out in favor of sanctions, was now concerned about their shortcomings. In an interim study the bishops said sanctions have not affected official policy and have punished South African blacks. Said the report: "The whole issue of economic pressures has clearly had a totally counterproductive effect on government thinking. Government attitudes have become noticeably more and more defiant, more so than when sanctions were threatened." The bishops' study also found that while blacks were willing to endure hardship to end apartheid, "if the policy is likely...
Meanwhile, in Congress, Secretary of State George Shultz offered no response when Representative Robert Torricelli (D.-New Jersey) told him during a hearing the U.S.-provided weapons were having a "dramatic" impact in Iran's favor in its war with Iraq...
...disease is moving beyond the homosexual world, forcing many American men and women to surrender the sexual freedoms of the past two decades in favor of a more cautious life-style. -- As the number of victims climbs, comparisons between AIDS and the great epidemics in history become plausible. -- Deaths in Africa reach 50,000, and millions more are at risk. See LIVING...