Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With an uphill reelection fight looming against Ali, Reagan challenges the Senator to a winner-take-all boxing match in 1984, declaring. "I can beat him at his own game." Saying that he will outlast Ali, the President predicts a 15-round decision in his favor. "He talks and brags with no remorse/But only I can stay the course." Reagan explains...
Boys and girls of the early 1960s returned the favor. By plugging into the nervous system of every love-starved teenager, these "girl groups" dominated the AM airwaves for three or four years and made honest, infectious, good music besides. Wrote Critic Greil Marcus: "If you were looking for rock 'n' roll between Elvis and the Beatles, girl groups gave you the genuine article." The Payola Years of rock have recently been limned in such movies as Sparkle and The Idolmaker and in the hit musicals Dreamgirls and Little Shop of Horrors. Now Alan Betrock's Girl...
...Moscow and Washington is focusing on West Germany, where new Chancellor Helmut Kohl completed a complex parliamentary maneuver last week enabling him to hold elections on March 6. The issue of the NATO missile deployment plan will loom large in the upcoming campaign. Kohl has come out strongly in favor of the new missiles, provided no progress is made in Geneva by the December 1983 deadline. But Hans-Jochen Vogel, who has replaced former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as the Social Democratic standardbearer, is pressing for greater American flexibility and his party is toying with a compromise that is not very...
...careers follow that trajectory of seeking the press, then avoiding it, or of still seeking attention after the press has lost interest. More fascinating are the public figures who lose out in press favor and then make it back: they show skill in damage limitation. Billie Jean King at first denied having an affair with a woman who sued her for palimony, then, against her attorney's advice, called a press conference to admit it. She ended up more praised for her honesty than condemned for her behavior. John Kennedy quickly took responsibility for the Bay of Pigs...
...fact, the cautious and conservative-minded Saudis are much more likely to use a carrot at Vienna than a stick. The betting is that they will favor holding the official price at $34 per bbl. As for production, the Saudis might decide to raise the spring quotas by about 10%, which would legitimize the cheating with a return to pre-March levels, while perhaps trimming their own output to keep the glut from growing worse. At the same time, the Riyadh government would stand ready to provide low-interest loans to help tide over financially squeezed cartel members until...