Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were enough supporters of the bill, including such diverse leaders as the president of the AFL-CIO and the chairman of Exxon, to win Senate passage twice, the last time by the overwhelming vote of 76 to 18. Ironically, a recent poll shows that even Hispanics favor tighter immigration laws, contrary to the position of their leaders. But support of organized business and labor for the bill has been lukewarm at best. The opposition of various special interests, on the other hand, remains...
...analyst in the region agrees. "I don't see how the revolution can be dislodged or pre-empted," he asserts. But, in his view, the pressures in favor of maintaining some semblance of pluralism are still strong enough to prevent Nicaragua from becoming another Cuba soon. The analyst adds: "My guess is that Nicaragua will remain a relatively pluralistic Marxist state for some time...
Members of the audience who answered a New York City Opera questionnaire were overwhelmingly in favor of the subtitles. A sampling of operagoers interviewed by TIME during the first two weeks of Cendrillon performances had scarcely any complaints. Opera Buff Milicent Auerbach conceded that continually looking up at the titles and down at the stage could give someone seated in the orchestra a pain in the neck. "The words being sung and the subtitles didn't always coincide," noted Brooklyn College Professor Carolyn Richmond. "But the captions were very helpful. Even though I understand French, I wouldn...
...grievance procedure reflects a similar lack of understanding of the nature and extent of sexual harassment. RUS shares the University's concern with due process, and with protecting the rights of all parties in a formal complaint. However, we believe that the present procedure is heavily biased in favor of the harasser...
Summers: There is a possibility to compare a society like ours to a society like the British, in terms of the extent of government involvement in the economy. The government is much less involved in the economy here. What you're discussing is whether you favor a sizable expansion in the role of government in the economy, not whether you simply favor doing the government interventions that are going to be done differently...