Word: favor
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...Murphy ahead of the GOP team of George Kariotis and Nicholas M. Nikitas by 69-20 percent. As a result, most attention on the race since September's primary has focused on how well the former duo get on together, as the nominally neutral Dukakis was reported to favor primary victim and State Senator Gerard D'Amico of Worcester for lieutenant governor...
There is much more conflict on issues among the general-election candidates, although local media have taken less of an interest in the campaign. The two Independents, for example, favor Question 1 on the referendum slate, which if passed would permit the state to regulate or prohibit abortion. Barrett opposes...
...parents object on religious grounds to books used in public schools, then their children are not required to read them. That is the implication of last week's verdict in a Tennessee trial, where Federal District Judge Thomas Hull, who heard the case without a jury, ruled in favor of parents who charged that the local school district forced their children to read textbooks that offended their strict Christian beliefs...
...uses of old words are bubbling up in almost every sector of American business. Wall Streeters talk about fallen angels (out-of-favor stocks at bargain prices), shark repellants (strategies used by companies to ward off takeover attempts) and fill or kill (an order to a broker that must be canceled if it cannot be completely and immediately executed). Management experts speak of skunk costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados...
...issues cannot be explored thoroughly in California's "Bye-Bye Birdie" campaign, as the Chief Justice's opponents have dubbed it. The 30-second commercials and sloganeering so basic to contemporary political campaigning preempt informed discussion. The syllogism, "The Chief Justice has generally voted against executions. I, however, favor them. Therefore I wish to remove her from the Court," typifies what will run through the minds of many voters as they mark their ballots. This kind of cheap politicization of the Court is precisely what the Founding Fathers sought to avoid when they wrote life tenure for federal judges into...