Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll call was anticlimactic. The packed galleries rang with cheers when Speaker Tip O'Neill announced the results: 245 to 176 in favor of deleting the $988 million for MX production. Fifty Republicans had opposed Reagan. Only 38 Democrats had taken his side...
...kill criminals. It is not at all clear that capital punishment deters would-be murderers better than the threat of life imprisonment. Yet there is a stubborn popular belief in the unique deterrent power of the death penalty. Even if deterrence were unequivocally disproved, however, public sentiment might still favor capital punishment. The death penalty, say proponents, is necessary to demonstrate that society takes its laws seriously; retribution seems a natural human urge. As the homicide rate doubled during the 1960s and early '70s, however, federal courts were becoming ever more scrupulous in their review of capital sentences. Then...
...between alcohol and churches, the vote would probably be close. A lot more people drink on Saturday nights in Harvard Square than attend church on Sunday morning. In fact, there are probably a few drinkers who don't like to be reminded of religion when they drink and might favor a law forbidding any churches within 500 feet of establishments serving liquor...
Such "brandstanding," as public relations types call it, is fast gaining favor as a hot way for more and more companies to promote their names and products. Chief reason: the steep rise hi the cost of advertising in the mass media, particularly televison. This year about 1,000 corporations sponsored events of one sort or another, vs. some...
Crimson: Do you think Andropov will take greater advantage of the disgruntlement illustrated by the Peace Movement in Western Europe with the United States and turn it around to act in Russia's favor...