Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's aides insist that the issues-the deficit, the arms race, "fairness" - favor their man and that he understands better than the President the complexities of running the Government. "Public opinion is going to force the Reagan camp out of the photo-opportunity, nondebate strategy," says Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel. "If Reagan will stop ducking and running, I think you'll see that style is overtaken by substance and that the American people are pretty smart." Last week the two camps agreed to at least one Mondale-Reagan debate, and possibly more...
...voice called out asking for the delayed vote to be taken. "All in favor of the motion say aye," intoned Rangel. Instantly, the room was filled with a shouted chorus of "Aye." Maynard Jackson leaped to his feet asking that the vote be made unanimous. As a beaming Mondale accepted congratulations, the group chanted, "We want Fritz!" Jesse Jackson, who had left the meeting earlier to make a nearby campaign appearance for Mondale, rejoined the group in time for its midnight press conference. "The course that the Mondale-Ferraro ticket represents is a course that we must pursue with enthusiasm...
Sometimes, at the end of a typical twelve-hour workday, Duarte looks a decade older than his years. He seems especially weary after dealing with the usual parade of favor seekers, this one hoping for a job, that one requesting reprieve from a parking ticket. So popular is Duarte among the people that a Sunday open house at the Casa Presidencial in June drew a crowd of 3,000. The President, characteristically, insisted on posing for photos with each guest. When that proved too time consuming, he posed with them in pairs, then groups of ten, then delegations of several...
...opposition movement is shunning party-controlled unions and institutions in favor of its own "parallel" programs, which bring it into direct contact with the population. The most successful of these has been a series of lectures on subjects such as Polish history and culture that are being conducted in churches throughout the country. Among the key targets: the young, some of whom were in grade school when Solidarity was founded; and peasants, who make up 43% of the population. Largely conservative by nature, Polish farmers can, according to the opposition, nonetheless be moved by arguments showing that state mismanagement...
...creation of extra embryos raises a number of delicate problems. Aside from the question of whether they have a "right" to be implanted (most experts deny it), doctors say they are needed for research. Some even favor creating embryos deliberately for the sake of research. But what exactly is "research"? Ideally, it is some experimental treatment that will help the embryo itself. Some states-Minnesota, for; example-prescribe that any experimentation must be known to be harmless. A number of authorities also believe that experimentation should be limited to the first 14 days after fertilization. There are scientists, however...