Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business Week/Harris national opinion poll, for example, shows a general reluctance to follow Reagan's lead in "making America strong again." One question asked was "In general, do you favor increasing the present defense budget?" Between March and October of this year, the percentage answering "yes" fell from 43 percent to 17 percent, the lowest number since 1971. The erosion of public support takes on even greater significance considering that 71 percent of those polled in 1980 thought spending more on weapons was a good idea. Reagan helped stir up a broad consensus for a more powerful military during...
...decision, though, everything had gone in Andropov's favor. First, Chernenko arrived late for work because of a flat tire. That had been enough to infuriate the boss, a stickler for punctuality. Then Brezhnev complimented Andropov on his new Pierre Cardin suit and suggested they go shopping together in the near future...
Fears of future embezzlement and costly auditing, which is currently provided free of charge by the University are the prime reasons Colantuono and Smith now favor leaving the money where it is they said this week...
Asked if he would favor candidates from Harvard because he spent time at the University. Dukakis conceded "somewhat," but stressed that he would build a set of advisors form "the broad coalition we built in the campaign...
...included nonbinding questions asking voters either whether they supported a moratorium on the production of nuclear weaponry, or whether they backed a mutually verifiable nuclear freeze. In eight of the nine states, voters said "yes"--including the Bay State, which logged in with nearly 70 percent of voters in favor of a moratorium. The nine simultaneous referenda together constitute the closest thing to a national referendum in American history, and as such deserve recognition as a very credible barometer of national sentiment on the nuclear issue...