Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that would not be weakened substantially by the additional expenditure of $50,000 to safeguard human lives. Such a grant might also spur other private donations to improve Arboretum safety. The University should recognize its responsibility to local residents, and again put aside its austere accounting principles in favor of common sense...
...with the century-long dormancy of the Reconstruction Amendments, with the imprisonment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, with the Red Scare, and we've seen it elsewhere to an even greater degree. The existence of basic rights is in fact predicated on a consensus opinion in favor of freedom, equality, and other values. This consensus opinion for rights will be eroded, Director, by the negative pressures you hope to build against gays...
...reports from Tehran, the Ayatullah Khomeini's goal is nothing less than the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who launched the war partly in an effort to topple Khomeini. Saddam's fall, the moderate Arabs fear, would realign the balance of forces in the region in favor of Iran and its main Arab supporter, Syria. Any change would worry Israel, which, though it has been supporting Iran against Iraq, remains hostile to the Syrians...
While yesterday's high flyers are out of fashion, traditional investments like bonds, stocks and even bank accounts are back in favor. Many financial advisers suggest that their clients look at bonds. Says James Sinclair, a onetime gold bug: "The next big play out there is not gold, but Treasury bills and bonds." By buying an AAA-rated corporate bond issued by a blue-chip company like American Telephone & Telegraph or International Business Machines, an investor can count on making 14% on his money for ten years or more. If inflation stays at about 5%, that represents a good...
...describe something, they simultaneously try to seduce the mind into accepting a prefabricated opinion about the something described. The effect of one laden term was incidentally measured in a recent survey of public attitudes by the Federal Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. The survey found that many more Americans favor governmental help for the poor when the programs are called "aid to the needy" than when they are labeled "public welfare." And that does not mean merely that some citizens prefer H/2O to water. In fact, the finding spotlights the direct influence of the antipathy that has accumulated around...