Word: favor
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...would stimulate the savings and investment the U.S. needs to revitalize its economy. Congress took a step in that direction in 1981 by allowing all income earners to set aside a limited amount of money in tax-deferred Individual Retirement Accounts. Now momentum is beginning to build in favor of a more sweeping change: a new tax on consumption that would gradually replace part or all of the present income tax system...
Most of Fuller's inventions, though influential, did not make him money. But his tireless preaching in favor of "synergetic" methods of seeking solutions to mankind's problems brought him a wide following. During the last two decades of his life he became a favorite of the hippies of the 1960s, the environmentalists of the 1970s and all who chose to believe with him that "we're at the point where humanity has the option to make...
...Jane schoolbooks, which instructed millions of U.S. children to "see Spot run" and to begin reading; in Long Beach, Calif. Written with the late William Gray and others, Monroe's classic primers were widely used from the 1930s until the early '70s, when educators began to favor a stronger phonics approach instead of the "look-say" learning method and to criticize the series' exclusively white middle-class characters...
Like Sancho and Shakespeare, those who praise proverbs favor nature over artifice and peasantry over peerage. Benjamin Franklin always preferred "a drop of reason to a flood of words" and filled Poor Richard's Almanac with colonial one-liners: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead"; "The used key is always bright." Emerson thought proverbs "the sanctuary of the intuitions." Tolstoy's knowledge of common tradition led him to an encyclopedia of wisdom. Eastern European sayings have always assumed the clarity and force of vodka: "Where the needle goes, the thread follows"; "The devil...
George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax, was alternately in and out of favor with the house of Stuart; his observations were worn smooth by disappointment: "Ambition is either on all fours or on tiptoes"; "The enquiry into a dream is another dream"; "Love is presently out of breath when it is to go uphill, from the children to the parents." By the time aphorisms became the property of the people, commoners had learned to speak like counts. The humbly born Sebastian Charnfort decided that "whoever is not a misanthrope at 40 can never have loved mankind." Nietzsche's phrases...