Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a have from the K-School from December through January to lead the search for the mayor's top four financial advisors, and has played an active role in the Flynn administration since then. He now spends days at the K-School and afternoons and evenings at the favor's top four financial advisors, and has played an active role in the Flynn administration since then. He now spends days at the K-school and afternoons and evenings at the favor's office...
Socialist. He is a turncoat and warmonger, as demonstrated by his policies in Chad and Lebanon and his stand in favor of Euromissiles. As a French civil servant and teacher, I have seen my living standard deteriorate and my taxes increase. I voted for Mitterrand in 1981. Next time I will think twice before I give him my vote...
...Sandinistas on March 30 introduced a resolution in the U.N. Security Council denouncing the U.S. for "the escalation of acts of military aggression brought against" Nicaragua. Among America's friends, France and The Netherlands voted in favor and Britain abstained; the U.S. had to cast a veto. Nicaragua then announced, at the beginning of last week, that it had filed a case against the U.S. in the World Court in The Hague. The U.S. told that tribunal in advance that it would not recognize any World Court jurisdiction over Central American matters for two years. State Department Spokesman John Hughes...
...specter of imminent war with the U.S. to increase repression and further consolidate their political grip on the country. In fact, the Sandinistas were slightly loosening press censorship, and declaring their intention to proceed on schedule with national elections-criticized by the Reagan Administration as hopelessly biased in favor of the regime-on Nov. 4. Observed a Western diplomat in Managua: "For once, the Sandinistas seem to be handling the situation in a mature and sophisticated fashion." Another explanation might be that the Nicaraguan regime was simply biding its time while the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America...
...government-backed Social Democratic Party (P.D.S.) received only 38% of the popular vote; the governorships often states as well as control of the House of Representatives fell into the hands of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (P.M.D.B.) and other opposition parties. But because the electoral college is disproportionately weighted in favor of the less populous northern states, which generally support the government, Figueiredo was able to keep control of the body. Not before 1991, according to the government plan, will Brazilians vote directly for a President. Explained Figueiredo on national television last month: "Everything has its time and its hour...