Word: favor
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...Reagan Administration's tough line is not completely new. Between 1974 and 1976 Gerald Ford suspended a total of 43.1 million in payments to the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) That body had voted in favor of a resolution that cut off UNESCO funding to Israel for altering the historical features" of Jerusalem. In 1977 the Carter Administration withdrew from the U.N.-sponsored International Labor Organization (ILO) in response to that organization's attacks on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Two years later, explaining that the ILO had decided to return...
...campaign in favor of this ballot questions represents demagoguery at its worst. Urban residents have grown increasingly uncomfortable in recent years about the dangerous environment that surrounds them. But promising legal execution merely panders to these fears, rather than constructively taking care of them. Every thorough study has shown that the threat of death is not an effective deterrent. Proponents argue that, nevertheless, the death penalty is needed to prevent repeat offenders. The prospects of a convicted mass murder roving through the Square after getting parole is indeed frightening. But the solution is tougher sentencing standards, not killing felons...
...fact, especially since coeducation has been treated as a fait accompli (the Review even consistently takes a strong stand in favor of women's sports), once can say that the changing of the college symbol led to the founding of the Review for it provided a symbolic issue around which traditionalists could rally and to some, pointed to the need for an alternative voice on campus. The Review has gained popularity among alumni (and financial advantage from them as well) in large part because of its support of the Indian symbol; many seem to believe that if the Indian symbol...
...with a specific proposal for full representation in the form of the D.C. Voting Rights Amendment (House Joint Res. 554). More than four year's after that bill's passage, however--with only three years left to win ratification--only 10 of the 38 states needed have voted in favor of the amendment and the legislation seems fated to die in obscurity...
Reagan's major attempt to resolve the doubts in favor of his party came last week. Initially, the White House sought to purchase time for a major TV address, but the networks balked. Reagan's aides then requested a free half-hour for what they billed as a "nonpartisan" economic report to the nation. Over the howls of Democrats, CBS and NBC agreed...