Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just how Mondale would fulfill his pledges is usually left vague, but there is one clue: when asked if he would favor this or that new federal program, he almost invariably agrees. A new Civilian Conservation Corps? Yes. A national bottle bill? Sure. A Peace Academy...
...hearings of the House Government Operations Subcommittee, Democratic Representative Mike Synar of Oklahoma charged that John Todhunter, the former head of EPA'S pesticide program who was forced out earlier this year, had delayed regulating EDB as a favor to agribusinessmen. Synar brandished a letter Todhunter wrote in June 1982 to Florida Representative Andy Irelanda, in which the regulator argued the growers' side of the case, stating, "It is important to your state's citrus exporters that EDB not be phased out unless there is an alternative available." Todhunter dismissed Synar's evidence as proving nothing...
...representing Saudi interests in Washington almost by accident. He was undergoing officers' training at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., in 1978 when the Senate faced a decision on whether to authorize the sale of 60 F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Fahd asked Bandar to lobby in favor of the deal. Using grace and wit, he helped persuade the Senators to approve the $2.5 billion sale. Three years later, when President Reagan proposed the sale of five AWACS radar aircraft to Saudi Arabia, Bandar was a natural choice to make the Saudi case, which he did successfully...
...suits flowing from alleged health dangers of its asbestos products. The company today is thriving. The Supreme Court is now reviewing a case in which a New Jersey building-supply company declared bankruptcy to escape a labor agreement with the Teamsters. A lower court has already ruled in favor of the company, saying that the terms of the contract were "burdensome...
...wake of her divorce). So are most of the reporters. Representatives of the church's board watch over the paper, and staff members admit that church values are edited into the coverage. Chief among subjects the Monitor downplays: medicine, which the church rejects in favor of prayer...