Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AGREE with the majority opinion in all but one respects publicly funded Christmas decorations are not merely a "familiar, unthreatening fixture." They too constitute a dangerous excursion by government over the church-state wall. Those who favor publicly funded Christmas decorations no doubt have the best of intentions; sadly, though, they fail to see the consequences...
Dudley House Master Arthur L. Loeb advocated many of the proposals. "I would favor a period where transfer students didn't have to second-guess the unfavorable rooming statistics at Harvard," Loeb said...
...said that sales picked up in the first days after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the all important Christmas shopping season. Several other retail chains, including Dayton-Hudson and K mart, are also reporting brisk holiday business. Concludes Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The odds still favor a very good Christmas." He thinks the drop in interest rates will bolster consumer confidence...
...crew that is following a car down Santa Monica Boulevard can pass through four jurisdictions in just a few minutes. Labor costs are also very high. Nonspeaking extras, for instance, are paid $87 a day in California; in neighboring Arizona they make only $35. As a result, producers often favor right-to-work states, where they can avoid union regulations. To meet the competition, even New York unions, which used to be as demanding as those in California, have become more cooperative and flexible in the past few years...
...Democrats have any incentive to meet him even halfway? Just as Reagan had to move to the center, they did too. Despite emotional support for a nuclear freeze and for the notion of banning nuclear weapons from outer space, voters did not favor positions they suspected might mean unilateral U.S. concessions. And if Reagan II is at all successful in improving U.S.-Soviet relations, the Democrats will have very little to gain from the issue. They would do better to ease the issue out of politics and earn at least some of the credit for embracing bipartisanship...