Word: favor
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...House is mindful of the potential 1984 election benefits of progress in arms control. But it insists that the MX is an essential bargaining lever to achieve that goal. Still, the growing congressional pressure is sure to widen the already existing split between the Administration's moderates, who favor an arms-control agreement in part to help re-elect Reagan, and its hardliners, who remain deeply suspicious that the Soviets will ever negotiate seriously. The key defense appropriations votes in the Senate could come very close to the scheduled resumption of the START talks in early October...
...Cuban Hoops in neighboring Angola. Although the issue was sidestepped last week, the negotiators had, as Perez de Cuellar put it, made "meaningful progress." The most significant accomplishment, perhaps, was intangible. The low-key Peruvian Secretary-General convinced the South African government that he was not biased in favor of the South-West Africa People's Organization of Namibia (SWAPO), the guerrilla group that has been fighting for Namibian independence since 1966. By winning the confidence of South Africa's leaders, Perez de Cuellar was able to persuade them to make concessions on several critical points...
...view of advocates of regulatory reform, including both liberals and conservatives, the Administration mistook the public's disgust with red tape for hostility to all forms of Government regulation. Polls show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made...
Developers have so far paid $5 million into the bond program. A few describe the city's zoning laws as extortionate. Others have tried to make the rules work in their favor. While building a 24-story office tower in the San Francisco financial district Texas Real Estate Developer Trammell Crow satisfied the letter of the law by installing 33 posh condominiums on the upper floors and put them up for sale at $400,000 to $2.5 million each. Crow eventually got to keep his apartments, but other builders were warned against violating the spirit of the housing regulation...
...brief against the prosecution is stronger. Hoover wanted his agents to arrest Julius Rosenberg without a warrant. "Strict observance of technicalities in favor of openly avowed conspirators is shocking," he wrote at the bottom of a memo, without attributing the source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous...