Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missiles from the calculations. How can we ignore that the U.S. plans to deploy 3,000 cruise missiles that will be able to penetrate our antiaircraft defenses? And at the same time, the U.S. is demanding that we reduce the principal weapons on our side, land-based missiles. We favor significant-I repeat significant-reductions. But we will never accept any proposal meant to weaken our security while it strengthens American security...
...victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...
...becomes a relationship at all. Gregory starts mooning after Dorothy (Dee Hepburn) when she beats him out of his position on the boys' soccer team at school. A liberated lady, she throws him into total confusion by accepting his first offer of a date, then does him the favor of standing him up. Three of her pals take him over, passing him along from one to the next over the course of an evening. He ends up on a hillside with Susan (Clare Grogan), who likes him best and who, in the girls' collective, unspoken wisdom, is just...
...every way that the only thing worse than a British military defeat is the wrong kind of victory," said a senior U.S. diplomat. That concern was shared by Britain's European allies, who were engaging in what one West German official called "a lot of quiet diplomacy" in favor of a peaceful settlement. Stressing the need for "negotiations," French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson said last week, "I'm a little sorry I have not heard that expression the last few days in any British mouths...
Whatever they favor, educators are quick to credit Washington's ominous doings with one benefit. They have focused attention on massive aid programs which--though growing at a furious rate for the last 20 years--had never before been subjected to the kind of philosophical scrutiny that its defenders have recently had to summon...