Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caracas last week, the results of Venezuela's sixth free presidential election in 25 years overwhelmingly confirmed that the ele gant presidential residence, La Casona, would be getting a new tenant. By a thumping 8-to-5 margin, voters had ousted the centrist Social Christian Party in favor of the country's strongest grass roots political force, the center-left Action Democratica under its amiable, soft-spoken leader, Jaime Lusinchi, 59. Said an exuberant Lusinchi after the vote...
...vote in favor of a concert and then to ask the student body to vote en masse to justify the Council decision is somewhat ridiculous I for one do not understand why the Council is behaving so irrationally in the face of social events. As Mr. Lyss points out, the "Social Committee's report said that financial backing...permits...precautions...and the band could all be obtained." Can is a marvelous verb. Will is a whole different ball game. It is about time the Undergraduate Council assumed an air of maturity and responsibility toward the student body. We elected...
...even as Judge Pettine was ruling against Pawtucket, Federal Judge Jack Roberts permitted a Nativity scene in the Texas Capitol Rotunda, arguing that Christmas has emerged as a predominantly secular holiday. Moreover, in a similar lawsuit in Denver, U.S. District Judge David Winder ruled in favor of a creche, saying. "The message conveyed is not an endorsement by the City of Denver of the Christian faith but rather one of the general celebration of the holiday season...
...THEIR ZEAL to stamp out every lingering vestige of America's religious roots, civil libertarians ignore the deeply ingrained cultural traditions that have marked the Christmas season. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will acknowledge such customs and rule in favor of Pawtucket. This is not to say, however, that Nativity scenes should be placed in every municipality. Constitutional permissibility does not imply good public policy...
...mail from viewers on the issue supported Reagan. Newspapers also protested the exclusion, and evoked the same sort of response: the trade publication Editor and Publisher found, in an informal survey of about a dozen dailies, that letters to the editor were running 3 to 1 in favor of the Reagan Administration's exclusion of the press. TIME's 225 letters on the issue ran almost 8 to 1 against the press...