Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cubans clearly had lost favor on the island. When a noon crowd watching the police station in Grenville saw 82nd Airborne officers arrive with Godwin Horsford, a well-known Coard supporter, in their custody, the spectators booed Horsford and shouted, "Cuban! Cuban!" Ermyn Campbell, who lived next door to the Cuban embassy in St. George's, recalled that "the Cubans were darling neighbors, very polite. But the U.S. is the best thing for us now. Things were coming so unstuck that I'm sure we were just snatched in time from the devil's own mouth...
...have a vote in favor of evolutionary reform." So proclaimed a buoyant South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha last week, and for once he was not merely wishing aloud. By a two-to-one majority, some 2.1 million voters - a fraction of the white-dominated country's 30 million inhabitants - had endorsed a proposal sponsored by Botha's ruling National Party to rewrite the South African constitution and soften its policy of whites-only rule. Botha also hailed the outcome of the referendum as "overwhelming." There Prime Minister was stretching matters a bit. Nonetheless, a milestone...
Chancellor disclosed to committee members one unsettling fact, though: let ters sent to NBC on the Government-press conflict had been running 10 to 1 in favor of the Administration. Reaction at other networks and newspapers was much the same. "The media need to listen to the public on some of these issues," observed Republican Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead of California...
...Publisher James Hoge, 47, to buy the paper. He promised staffers he would never sell it to Murdoch. But Hoge's final offer was only $63 million and did not include the syndicate. In addition, Frederick, a film investor with a penchant for racing cars, was arguing in favor of Murdoch, who offered a quick cash deal...
...Lawrence Washburn Jr., a lawyer and right-to-life activist, was tipped off about the case, presumably by a hospital employee; he sued to force an operation. A local judge ruled in his favor, but the state's highest court, labeling Washburn's participation in the case "offensive," said that he had had no standing to sue. The parents of Baby Jane Doe thought their legal agony was over...