Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garrulous financial vice-president states: "I'll argue that the preponderance of evidence on 99 percent of that is in our favor...
...head. It blends uncontrolled government spending with rising inflation and high unemployment. Complimenting other E.C. ministers on the steps their nations had taken to stabilize their economies, outgoing Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta deplored Italy's official inertia: "I believe our people also have that same courage [to favor stabilization], but our politicians, at least some of them, do not know how to read their feelings." It may take more courage than any of the parties are willing to show to translate those feelings into a disciplined economic policy...
...massive, suicidal assaults. In response, Iran has adopted a new strategy of long-term attrition, undertaking only intermittent and limited offensives. The question then becomes: Which government is better able to absorb the continued carnage of a sustained struggle? Many analysts feel that the odds at the moment slightly favor Iran. Says a U.S. official: "The Iranians are still willing to go out and die in this war, but the Iraqis don't have the heart for it any more...
Though news of the Santa Maria find began circulating on Wall Street late last summer, it has not made a big difference in the oil companies' stocks, which are currently out of favor with investors. Though the Dow Jones industrial average has risen 27.7% since July 30, Phillips is up only 22.8%; Standard Oil of California, 20.8%; and Texaco...
Most major papers insist that their affirmative-action programs explicitly favor minority applicants. Ed Storin, an assistant managing editor of the Miami Herald, reflects the view of many newspaper executives: "If we had a white person and a black person with the same abilities, we would definitely pick the black." As a result, minority journalists can often short-cut the traditional start in small towns and move quickly to big, well-paying papers. But they remain nonetheless a minority; 60% of the nation's newsrooms are all white, and integration has been stalled by economic hard times...