Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House of Representatives to override Reagan's veto of a bill to curb imports of textiles and shoes. But when the debate ended last week, the bill's backers fell eight votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary for an override. The final tally: 276 in favor of the proposal, 149 opposed...
...remain a credible factor in the year before the 1988 campaign gets under way in earnest, Robertson must broaden his appeal and pull together a staff that can handle the complex logistics of a national campaign. One thing working in his favor is that he is positioned to run well in the South's pod of primaries, caucuses and conventions that will be held in the same week in March of 1988 and will choose perhaps 30% of the delegates to the national conventions. (So is Jackson, who may reap the South's black Democrats the way Robertson may reap...
...workers' riots protesting unemployment, Kadar took part in the fighting. The next year he joined the Federation of Young Communist Workers. In 1942, with Hungary under Nazi occupation, Kadar was jailed. In 1949, after the Communists had come to power, he became Interior Minister. But he quickly fell from favor and spent two more years in prison...
...Soviets Join Americans in Teaching Exchange," in which I was badly misrepresented. As a member of the board of directors of the organization which arranged the Soviet Teacher Exchange, and in fact as a member of the delegation which first delivered the proposal to Moscow, I am strongly in favor of the exchange and its potential for greater cooperation in language teaching and delighted that it could be implemented so quickly. Yet the remarks attributed to me in the article gave exactly the opposite impression. The quotations were taken completely out of the contexts in which they were offered...
Britain has long been seeking such an agreement, but it was Thatcher's aid in the April bombing raid on Libya that helped push the measure through. Many U.S. diplomats and Senators felt that the U.S. ought to return a favor...