Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public opinion, Mrs. Reagan by this time should be locked in her closet. Instead, she is headed out into the world on her Foster Grandparent program and her promotion of drug rehabilitation. Further, something has happened in the press. The stories have softened. There has been a backlash in favor of the resolute First Lady with the Adolfo pattern. After writing a particularly harsh piece, a Washington Post columnist was deluged with mail expressing outrage-at the columnist, not Mrs. Reagan. George Gallup polled Americans and found her the woman they most admired...
...through it all, King has endorsed the Administration without any qualification King testified in favor of Reagan's budget in early 1981--ironically, while the governor's own aides were in Washington lobbying against some federal cuts: This January, King loudly praised the New Federalism. And at last week's governor's gathering. When his fellow Democrats unanimously declared that they are "appalled at the Administration's callous disregard of the elderly, farmers, college students, small business and unemployed workers, "King was conspicuously absent. Instead, he met personally with Reagan, declaring afterwards, "I see no reason why we should...
...have long counseled against any case-by-case approach because it would strip the University of the moral leverage of an absolute ban, and because, in others' hands, it has proven unable to sway the repressive Botha regime. And we continue to favor total divestiture of Harvard's holdings in all corporations that deal with South Africa...
Ironically, Fluor is starting to come back into favor among some analysts and although its lead, coal, zinc and gold properties are still depressed, owing to worldwide prices plummeting in all of those markets, it is probably the lowest cost producer in most of those fields, giving it a solid chance to rebound from its current low position. But, no, Harvard held on to it all during its slide, and waited until it just about hit its 52-weeks-low to unload, thus cheating the endowment of a solid profit, and ignoring a chance to make a needed statement about...
Conspicuous in his absence after seven minutes of the first half was a Calvin Dixon. McLaughlin pulled Dixon in favor of Kevin Boyle, and the substitute responded with effective defense on Edwards...