Word: favor
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Tempers flared during last week's NSC meeting, which lasted more than two hours. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills argued vehemently that Bush should scrap the agreement in favor of persuading the Japanese to buy standard F-16s, minus the instructions for putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide...
...experience of the Reagan years contradicts both propositions. In 1981, Congress gave former President Ronald W. Reagan sweeping across-the-board tax cuts, weighted heavily in favor of the rich, with the wealthiest 5 percent of taxpayers getting 35.1 percent of the cuts...
...There's such a huge conspiracy in favor of ice hockey already," he said, "that I think that I should reserve my loyalties for the basketball team and let [Dean of the Faculty A. Michael] Spence take care of the hockey...
ACLU representatives said they might take on the case, Williams said. "They seemed interested. In fact, the initial legal advice I got from someone there was very strongly in favor of pursuing this." ACLU officials could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Atwater's appointment to the board was a marriage of convenience. The R.N.C. chairman wanted better ties with the black community, and Howard President James Cheek was eager to curry favor with the new Administration: the university depends on the Federal Government for more than $178 million, nearly 60% of its annual budget. Despite rumors of dissension among the 31 other trustees, all but one approved Atwater's election...