Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While voters favor Reagan, they tend to agree more with Mondale's stands on specifics like the environment and arms control. Yet it remains to be seen whether issues, even fired by a second debate performance as impressive as Sunday night's, can compete with the powerful imagery of Ronald Reagan...
...intra-Mafia dispute was settled in Masselli's favor in a Bonanno-Genovese "sitdown." But Frascone continued to object, and Masselli ordered him killed, according to last week's indictments. The admitted killer was Mike Orlando, a former grade school teacher who had switched to an exciting and dangerous double vocation: he was Masselli's top bodyguard and an FBI informer. Now a protected federal witness in other cases, Orlando claims he shot Frascone on Sept. 22, 1978, after the victim was fingered for him in The Bronx by Joe ("Bugs") Bugliarelli, a local bookie. The getaway...
...Innuit and the Cree Indians, who also dwell in the area, brought suit in Canadian courts to halt construction of the $15 billion James Bay hydroelectric-power project, charging that it would result in damage to their lands. In 1973 the Quebec Superior Court ruled in the plaintiffs' favor. But after a one-week suspension, work on the immense undertaking was resumed when the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the earlier ruling...
...tactical adjustment in the second half by Shattuck swung the momentum of the game into the Crimson's favor. Noticing that the Cornell defense had concentrated on Kenworthy and Catliff, creating a four-on-two situation, he instructed the Crimson forwards to push up further in attack, eliminating the option of passing back and also making the Big Red distribute the ball more quickly...
...played to a 3-3 standoff. The hosts jumped out to a 3-0 lead of their first possession as Dave Baccile rounded off a nine play, 31-yard drive with a 49-yd, field goal. With three seconds left in the contest, Harvard's Jim Villanucva returned the favor from 44 yards...