Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Despite this setback, I still strongly favor the project," Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 wrote to all faculty members in a memorandum announcing Tribe's resignation...
...outcome dealt a humiliating blow to the already wobbly ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, who had personally led the campaign in favor of divorce. It also sealed the country's own marriage to the Roman Catholic Church and set back hopes of a closer alliance with Northern Ireland, the republic's predominantly Protestant neighbor. Said Pro-Divorce Activist Margaret Geaney, choking back tears: "The majority has spoken and said, 'We don't give a damn about...
Joseph P. Kennedy II, who leads the race, has consistently received at least a third of the district's support. The Bachrach poll of 400 voters indicates that 34 percent back Kennedy, 22 percent favor Bachrach and only 10 percent support King...
...Delaware, and which indebtedness was subsequently transferred to a domestic affiliate which was incorporated on October 17, 1890, and whose principal place of business is in California . . ." and so on and on through 131 words. The purposes of this lush verbiage: 1) to make certain that the favor would go to just one company, Unocal, an oil giant that figured to escape $50 million in taxes by getting credits for interest payments on the $4.4 billion debt it piled up last year fighting off a takeover attempt; 2) to hide that fact behind a nearly impenetrable screen of words...
...enjoys being unpredictable. "He's not afraid to take a tough vote," says Chafee. Bradley angered some Democrats this spring by voting in favor of aid to the contra guerrillas who are trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he has come to believe that the Sandinistas are intent on exporting revolution in Central America. "I want to buy time for the fragile democracies down there," he says...