Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple cure for the deep depression that is gripping America's farm belt, but Don Lacy, president of Contract Freighters in Joplin, Mo., wants to help out in a small way and do his company a favor at the same time. Lacy plans to fill about 500 full-time openings for truck drivers this year by hiring financially strapped farmers. The new recruits will receive twelve weeks of training and then take to the highways for an average salary of $24,000 a year. Says Lacy: "I don't want to hold this out as a miracle that will save...
...fair in Paris in 1855, hundreds of wines were classified into five levels of quality, but Petrus was not even ranked. For many decades after that, Bordeaux traders disdained Petrus and other wines from Pomerol in favor of more prized labels from the Medoc, Sauternes and Graves regions. But the 1947 Petrus was so spectacular that word of the chateau began to spread throughout France...
Proponents argued that the Senate was only postponing the inevitable. Minority Leader Robert Byrd, once an opponent of the camera's eye, cited more pragmatic reasons in its favor: "The Senate is fast becoming the invisible half of Congress. We cannot hold our own with the White House and the House of Representatives when it comes to news coverage of the important issues...
Many students at the Wednesday night committee meetings said they favor the clerical and technical union. "The leaders split from the UAW for good reasons," said Adams House resident Jonathan E. Martin...
...want to ask a favor from rooming groups 1-400. Don't tell the rest of us that there's no use being upset since we can't change the number. Just let us be angry. And if we happen to call you lots of mean and nasty names, don't take it personally. Next year we'll be too far away to give you a hard time anyway...