Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT WENT WRONG? Despite the dazzling array of outside talent that channel 7 imported, it couldn't win the audience's favor. The hiring of Ellis and Young probably won't fare any better over time. The public wants more...
...previously agreed to by Congress, he said, would be vetoed. His first test came last week: a $14.2 billion supplemental spending bill that provides additional money for fiscal 1982 programs. That amount was both too much and too little to satisfy Reagan, who felt that it shortchanged defense in favor of added domestic outlays. "So even though it means delay in getting legislation," the President announced in a Saturday radio broadcast, "I have vetoed that supplemental appropriations bill...
...analysts felt that Mexico would eventually find a way out of its crisis. "When the dust clears," said one U.S. Federal Reserve Bank official, "I am confident this will turn out to have been a much shorter-term problem than the one in Poland." Working in Mexico's favor is the oil pool, which, despite declining prices, guarantees a substantial future export income. Another, paradoxically, is the sheer magnitude of the country's debt; rather than spark widespread financial chaos by declaring a default, international bankers have little real choice but to reschedule Mexico's payments. Finally...
...deal to buy Fidelity for $200 million fell through because of opposition from federal and state regulators. After the failing thrift was seized last April 13 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., however, it was rechartered as a federal mutual association when the Government had a more favor able attitude toward interstate takeovers...
...manifesto for furthering their goals. His "journey through traditionalist America" covers the social and family issues of those who oppose the ERA and busing, the economic worries of those who are fighting for supply-side tax cuts and deregulation of industry, and the foreign policy concerns of those who favor a tougher stand against Soviet adventurism. "Many of the sinews binding the movement's parts are basic conservative tenets, such as affirming authority, discipline, a moral order with a hierarchy of values," he writes. Whether these are signs that the U.S. has "begun a new era," as he claims...