Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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History, the odds, and the highly partisan crowds at the Tigers' intimidating Jadwin Gym and the Quaker's awesome Palestra were, to say the least, not in the visitors 'favor...
...major inflation, the complaints could be powerful fodder for Deng's opponents. Though no party official has publicly criticized his programs, some in the 24member Politburo are believed to have strong reservations about the policies. Chen Yun, chairman of the party's disciplinary commission, for example, is thought to favor Soviet- style economic planning and to oppose Deng's open-door policy to the West. Other party officials also distrust Deng's reforms because of their capitalistic flavor, but much of their opposition is rooted in self-interest. For Deng's programs to work, people with managerial and intellectual skills...
...First Lady and her p.r.-conscious operatives have tried to down-play galas in favor of uplifting public forays. Lately the coverage has tilted more toward the latter. Last Christmastime, the President's wife spent three hours at Washington's Children's Hospital doling out toys. The visit provided a particularly emblematic First Lady image: Nancy Reagan in her red-and-black pumps, black knit Adolfo jacket and plaid Adolfo skirt, kneeling on a linoleum ward floor to coddle an infant. Impeccably turned out, uncomplainingly doing her social duty...
...industry slump by producing cultivating implements designed to help farmers cut energy costs. Republic Gypsum, a Dallas manufacturer of wallboard and asphalt roofing, thrived on the Sunbelt's homebuilding boom. California's Mattel bounced back from last year's worst-performers list by turning away from electronic games in favor of dolls like those in its deliriously successful Masters of the Universe line. Rollins Environmental Services, a Wilmington, Del., firm that handles industrial waste, benefited from stricter federal rules involving the disposal of such hazardous chemicals as polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB. Shares in Cowles Broadcasting, the Daytona Beach, Fla., chain...
Such accolades are tough to come by in academe, where scholars guard their intellectual turf and rarely show kindness toward a contrary thesis. Abraham's volume laid a measure of blame for the failure of the post-World War I German government upon German businessmen, who came to favor Hitler, a view that scholars have squabbled about for decades. The book, with its Marxist perspective, was respected even by uncompromising Gerald D. Feldman, a University of California expert on late imperial and Weimar Germany. Feldman had critiqued an early draft and pronounced the volume "imaginative and interesting...