Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of pornography as cause or symptom becomes, in effect, the dividing line among feminist positions: a question of strategy. While MacKinnon supports direct legal action, critics such as Millet and journalist Marsha Pally, who also spoke at the symposium, favor what they consider to be a more longterm strategy of reforming cultural institutions...
...results and the rhetoric of the conference was ascribed by one Western analyst in Peking to Deng's "practice of not overwinning." While Deng enjoys strong support at the top levels of the party hierarchy, many lower-ranking officials, who have no stake in the reform programs, tend to favor the Chen Yun approach. Thus Chen's speech may have been sanctioned as a sort of minority dissent...
Government Procurement Policies. Governments are among the biggest customers | in world trade, and they almost always favor the home team. Westerners have long complained that Japan's state-owned Nippon Telephone and Telegraph bought relatively little equipment from foreign firms. Now that two-thirds of NTT is being sold to private investors, the government has pledged that outsiders will be able to sell more products to the company. Last week NTT announced its first major cooperative agreement with a U.S. corporation: a joint venture with IBM to build a complex computer network in Japan...
FROM MALE DOMINATION TO EQUAL PARTNERSHIP! So read a headline last week in the Geneva daily La Suisse, hailing the result of a national referendum on equal marriage rights for women. The vote in favor, however, was a less-than- overwhelming 54.7%. Sexual equality has come late to Switzerland, which adopted women's suffrage at the federal level only 14 years ago and an equal rights amendment a decade later. Still on the books until last week were laws enshrining the husband's right to choose his family's place of residence, prevent his wife from working, and manage...
...students in favor of the boycott expressed disappointment at DSAC's decision and said they would continue their efforts to boycott Coors beer...