Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process, many of the glamour investments of the 1970s have fallen from favor, notably nonproductive "collectibles" like wine, antiques, coins and other such prosaic places to put money. The stock market is also luring funds that, through the 1970s, were going into precious metals, gems and real estate, even though their prices have continued to rise. Silver, for example, was selling in June for 109.5% more than it was a year earlier, gold for nearly 30% more. Diamonds, though, did not gain...
Wylie, who often raised his voice in an impassioned speech in favor of the measure said, "We are in more danger than we have ever been in the history of this city. We've never been more concerned that at the push of a button this whole city can be destroyed...
...reluctantly approved, the biggest point in his favor being his access to the President. Clark and Haig hit it off, and Clark was responsible on several occasions for saving the high-strung Haig's job. He confined himself to making things run smoothly, playing the quintessential bureaucrat. When Richard Allen was removed as head of the NSC after a scandal concerning gifts from Japanese, Clark was moved into the post...
...personality. Almost accidentally, ABC created a version of Marshall McLuhan's "global village," with newscasters focusing on diverse stories as they viewed the world from different places. Arledge's decentralized vision was taken up, in part, by CBS News under Sauter, who downplayed Washington and Government in favor of more geographically varied news. In Mudd's view, his ouster by NBC also reflects "an anti-Washington bias." But NBC News President Frank insists he moved Mudd mainly because the show "looked like two decks of cards being riffled together." Sums up Frank: "The two-anchor program...
When the region has forced itself on American attention, political debate has usually degenerated quickly into an argument over illusory, mutually exclusive panaceas. Liberals have tended to favor responding with money, self-criticism and tolerance for radicalism of the left; conservatives have leaned toward guns, toughness and tolerance of the extreme right. Early in the Reagan Administration, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig struck just the wrong note with his tough talk about "going to the source." He meant Cuba. He seemed to be suggesting that if the U.S. could just clobber Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua would behave...