Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said SPIL's goal is not to "be unfair to owners or skew the system in favor of tenants," but to "help the rent control system go smoothly...
...Jewett's recommendation, CAR has begun to organize a panel discussion between those who oppose and those who favor randomization. If run as planned, the discussion will include Jewett, house masters opposing randomization, CAR members and anyone else who wishes to voice an opinion...
Prospects for reversing that outlook in the Senate are dim. Finance Committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen will try to stop the capital-gains cut by offering as an alternative broader IRAs, without any tax increase to make up the revenue loss. Failing that, some Democrats favor strategy to combine the capital-gains cut in a monster tax-and-spending bill with so many provisions unacceptable to Bush that he will be forced to veto it. That risks triggering the automatic spending cuts mandated by Gramm-Rudman-Hollings if there is no agreement by Oct. 16 to hold the deficit...
...only is the issue pervasive, it's extraordinarily divisive. Are you a trickledowner or a welfarist ? A conservative or a liberal? Do you favor housing vouchers or public housing ? If you don't know, you're probably not going. But if you identify with any of the latter, and a lot more than 51 Harvard students do, you're a potential sardine...
What they don't want is a "concerted national effort" that consists of a week of headlines, presidential press conferences, and then abandonment in favor of the next crisis du jour...