Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as you." Watt said his remarks were "extraordinarily unfair" to Reagan, whose policies "are designed to lift the scourge of discrimination from our midst." That may have been Watt's belated recognition that he had not helped the White House in its current campaign to curry favor among women and minorities...
...Democratic National Convention for a quota of one-third of delegates to be low- and moderate-income, similar to the 50 per cent quota for women. A commission headed by Black activist and Congressman Michey Leland recommended the idea to the Democratic National Committee, which rejected it in favor of another proposal that about one-third of delegates be party officials--effectively closing off the party instead of opening...
...contrary investing, where Harvard buys stocks that it believes are undervalued, represents one of the Management Company's newest ventures. Charles T. Haydock '74 joined the company 15 months ago, and last winter he and Cabot agreed to put some $25 million into buying stocks which were "out of favor, overlooked or undervalued," Haydock says. Because the field is new and somewhat radical, there are no experts, and Haydock is reluctant to cite it as his specialty. The program is useful, according to Cabot, if only for providing useful information about the market...
...days, over a quarter of Brown's four years as governor. During this time, she has done little if anything to antagonize the governor or the people. One pollster noted that the contrast between her actions as acting governor and Stovall's have been a strong mark in Collins favor. Good exercise of power tends to blur the memory of the perceived bad exercise of power. Anyone who wondered whether a woman could handle the job of Governor of Kentucky could be shown that in fact the commonwealth has had a woman governor for 492 days...
...mother or the fetus." Ms. Idelson is completely right in saying that the mother's "right" to an abortion and the fetus's right to life stand in contradiction my compliments to her for such a lucid observation. Simply put, anti-abortionists, for logical reasons, have chosen to favor the fetus's right over the mother's. To say, however, that we therefore "discount the concerns of the living" is an act of journalistic or editorial hyperbole. Of the two parties involved, the mother and the fetus, only the mother has any choice in the matter of whether...