Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if the Court does rule in favor of enforcing the restraint rule, auto industry lobbying during creation of the law four years ago gutted it of any real guarantee of safety. In the process of deflating hopes for airbags, the auto industry decisionmakers have, in effect, taken a stand in favor of death for perhaps 16,000 Americans and serious injury for many thousands more. Despite the extra revenue that policy reaps. I don't envy those executives who must face their grim responsibility each morning. I'd rather wake up to news radio...
...incumbents, 14 of them freshmen who were elected on Reagan's long coattails in 1980. The Democrats lost only three incumbents, losses that were balanced by Democratic gains in new seats or ones where incumbents retired. Overall, the popular vote for House members was split 57% to 40% in favor of the Democrats...
...Candidate George Deukmejian focused his attacks on the outgoing Democrat, Jerry Brown, despite reminders from Democrat Tom Bradley that he, Bradley, was the opponent. Brown, in turn, aimed most of his attacks at Reagan, except one tactical nuclear assault on Republican Opponent Pete Wilson, who he implied was in favor of the nuclear-arms race. It ended up a G.O.P. sweep...
...South Atlantic dependencies. With the entire Soviet bloc and such radical states as Viet Nam, Cuba and Libya, the U.S. voted in the United Nations General Assembly for a nonbinding resolution that urged Britain to return to the negotiating table on the Falklands issue. The final tally: 90 in favor, twelve against and 52 abstentions, including most of Britain's Western European allies...
Thirty years ago, Isaac Asimov completed his Foundation trilogy, a Gibbon-esque look at the decline and fall of an intergalactic empire. Asimov, who abandoned fiction in favor of science, has now expanded his work to a tetralogy with foundation's Edge (Doubleday; $14.95). The last volume of the trilogy ended with a question: Does a mysterious organization, capable of controlling human history, really exist in some secret galactic refuge? Edge opens with an answer: Of course. It then proceeds to describe the rivalry between the altruistic Foundation and two less noble competitors for the heart and mind...