Word: favor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bundy, a New York University professor who was national security advisor during the Kennedy Administration, is serving as the chairman of a committee reconsidering the club decision in favor of admitting women. Bundy's committee could recommend that the 139-year old social organization make the necessary financial changes to avoid being held under...
This background leads to the thought that student demonstrations in favor of "democracy" are presumably in sympathy with and may be factionally allied with the reform wing of the Party that is pursuing political modernization under Deng Xiaoping. The reformers realize that new institutional arrangements are essential for China's modern political life. They may well feel that the majority of the Party are dragging their feet...
...operating system, which were introduced in 1985 just as the industry-wide computer slump was deepening, are still selling slowly. In addition, the phone- rental business has been weakened. During the past two years, as business and residential customers returned their rented AT&T phones to the company in favor of buying their own equipment, often from other suppliers, the firm's rental income declined by some $2 billion. Says Jack Grubman, a telecommunications expert with PaineWebber: "AT&T has not delivered on the promises of divestiture...
...wrong. On Jan. 7, 1986, shortly after McFarlane left the Government, Reagan convened another NSC meeting. According to Shultz, nothing was put to a vote and no formal decision was announced. But, says the Secretary, he could sense that the trend of the discussion was going in favor of additional arms sales. Still opposed, Shultz made little effort after that to find out what was happening; he told the Foreign Affairs Committee, "I . . . kick myself" for not being more aggressive...
Although gravely ill, Shuttleworth, 34, has lived to see his case scheduled. It will come to trial next week before U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale. If the court decides in Shuttleworth's favor, it will be an important victory for AIDS victims, just the second ruling from a U.S. district court that a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped protects people with AIDS. The first came only two weeks ago, when a judge in California ordered the Atascadero school district to readmit Ryan Thomas, 5, who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been banned...