Word: favor
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Martha Grimes is an American mystery writer who up till now has forsworn the traditional metier of her countrymen, the novel of action, in favor of dead-on English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch...
...Conservative and liberal observers were agreed. Like it or not, the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years had seemed to favor some erosion of Thomas Jefferson's sturdy "wall of separation between church and state." Both sides expected the trend to continue after the court scheduled new religion cases this term. But last week, as it recessed for the summer, the court confounded the prognosticators. For the third time in a month, the Justices took a tough stand against allowing government and religion...
Much of the concern comes from people who favor continued immigration, but who fear the consequences if a slowdown in the economy were to heighten the sense that immigrants, especially illegal ones, take jobs away from Americans. "We could have a terrible backlash, a terrible period of repression," warns the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and chairman of the Select Commission on Immigration that was established by Congress in 1978. "People tend to forget that twice in our lifetime, this country has rounded up hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and pushed them back over the border.* That...
...documents. Fake driver's licenses sell in Los Angeles for $60 to $65 each. Doctored "green cards" go for as little as $25 apiece. Nothing in Simpson's new bill requires employers to take responsibility for the authenticity of such documents, although the Senator says that he would also favor, under certain circumstances, the introduction of a new tamperproof Social Security card. Barring such a sweeping development, employer sanctions seem likely, if anything, to give the phony-documents industry a further < boost. Thus Simpson also wants to see stiffer penalties of up to two years in prison for ID counterfeiters...
...Washington that Damascus is a useful place to do business in the area, Assad has helped out in previous prisoner situations, notably the release of downed U.S. Navy Flyer Robert Goodman in 1984 and possibly the freeing of CNN Beirut Correspondent Jeremy Levin in February. One possible U.S. favor Assad may have in mind in exchange for his latest assistance: a request for U.S. pressure on Israel to abandon its so-called security zone in southern Lebanon...