Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...G.O.P. dreams are fading quickly. Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, still predicts that up to ten seats will shift in the G.O.P.'s favor, but Congressman Tony Coelho of California, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sharply disagrees. "There's no way they're going to do that," he says. "The most they'll get is five seats, and it might even be a wash...
...helicopter closer to the target and orders the second gunner to take all the ammunition. We are completely exposed on one side of the craft, but the pilot wants to fire until the last bullet, and so we circle around the firing zone over and over again, corkscrewing to favor our "good side." The last ammo finally runs through the gun only when the light has gone and the sun is sitting pale on the slope of the volcano...
...advantage in numbers of MIRVed missiles. He conceded us 1,100 MIRVed missiles over the extended term of the agreement, vs. 1,000 for the Soviets. We considered the 100-missile advantage inadequate because of the Soviet lead in other categories. I proposed a considerably wider gap in our favor. Brezhnev rejected it at first with the comment: "If I agree to this, this will be my last meeting with Dr. Kissinger because I will be destroyed." But if past practice and actual Soviet conduct were any guide, more realistic figures would soon emerge. It did not happen that...
...rest of us--the ones who have never cared much about the state of student government, much less its shape--must decide whether or not to approve the new form of government. We all should spare 10 seconds in the dining halls and vote in favor of the new council...
...University temporarily suspended its ban on South Africa loans on January in favor of a case-by-case review policy and at that time asked the ACSR to review the decision and make a formal recommendation...