Word: favor
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...income tax cuts, but several board members, including James McKie and Rimmer de Vries, argued against that course. Reason: income tax cuts encourage Americans to save more of their earnings and thus provide added Government for business investment. De Vries suggested that the Government close example, loopholes that favor consumption over savings. If, for example, the Government eliminated the deductibility of interest on consumer loans except for mortgages, revenues would rise by an estimated $9.6 billion in 1986. McKie called for a $5-per-bbl. tax on imported oil. That would spur energy conservation and could cut the deficit...
...compromise them even in the face of deep suffering in the work force, may be liabilities at the polls next month. But they pale in comparison with Foot's fail ure to control the left wing of his party and his unwillingness to step down in favor of the more popular and dynamic Healey. Wrote London Sunday Times Political Editor Hugo Young: "About Labor there is the stench of something close to death. The rot of self-doubt, even of self-ridicule, has set in." He added, "The vote will be negative as well as positive: anti-Foot...
Kleist's letters, collected in An Abyss Deep Enough, augment this sense of modernity: "Heaven is pleased to grant desires that comply with its purpose, why then must it be we who are excluded from its favor?" It is no wonder that Kafka came to regard Kleist's writings as "the works of a master"; they anticipate The Castle by a century...
...Yale and Princeton Universities, students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a nuclear freeze. While the Yale vote was taken simply as a barometer of student opinion, the vote at Princeton was aimed directly at the university...
While it is too early to label the recovery a sure thing, a number of trends are running in the industry's favor. With the recession winding down, consumer spending is picking up. Records now come in more economical sizes. Twelve-inch "dance singles" that feature extended versions of hit songs sell for as little as $3.49, and mini-albums that carry half as many songs as regular albums sell for about $4.49, instead of $6.29 to $7.99. At the same time, the appeal of coin-operated video games seems to be wearing off. Arcades that compete with...