Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many owners who favor Sunday sales have already taken advantage of loopholes in the old law that allowed some operations, such as bookstores, to remain open. Another exemption, passed in 1977, allows stores to stay open on Sundays from Thanksgiving to Christmas...
...French voters cast 51% of their ballots in favor of the center-right opposition, compared with only 46% for the governing Socialist-Communist alliance. It was an almost symmetrical reversal of the results that had brought Mitterrand to office in May 1981. As a result, the left stood to lose power not in 15 cities, as it had once expected, but in about 40. Conceded Jean Poperen, deputy leader of the Socialist Party: "There has been a certain setback. I don't deny...
...motors" as luxuries. Closed cars became standard, though, in the 1920s. By 1927 about 83% of all U.S. autos were enclosed, creating a booming market for gasoline and other auto products because cars were being driven year round. After World War II the convertible again began to rise in favor. By the mid-1960s, half a million convertibles were selling yearly, accounting for 7% of car sales. All the major automakers had versions, including Chevy's Corvette and Ford's Thunderbird. Automen, ever macho, called convertibles the "mistress every man wants...
...said in an interview Tuesday. "But escalating the military aid will decrease the results in the same proportion." The rebels, he says, have frustrated the efforts of the 22,400 soldiers and 11,000 security men of the Salvadoran government, and "the rhythm of the war" is in favor of them...
...consumer advocate Ralph Nader said yesterday that the conservative groups are choosing their own set of terms. PIRG is an educational organization in favor of clean air, clean drink and water, elderly rights, and consumer safely," he said adding. "Is that left wing or just good sense...