Word: favor
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...chief expert on Soviet affairs for the National Security Council staff. Before joining the Government, he was an outspoken, highly controversial critic of détente and a leader of the Committee on the Present Danger, a private lobbying group that campaigned against SALT II and in favor of larger defense budgets. Partly because of his reputation for vociferous anti-Sovietism, and partly because the NSC has been trying to avoid publicity, Pipes until now was under orders to keep his strong views out of the press. Following the recent shake-up of the NSC, the new National Security Adviser...
...Board decision in favor of a new election could turn into a major victory for the union. District 65 officials say that because of people's knowledge of what has happened in the past, they would be able to get more votes and win the election. But Harvard so opposed to having District 65 represent the medical workers that if the NLRB favors the University the union will probably reappeal the case to a federal court. Harvard officials are scared of the precedent an NLRB decision against them could set which would mean "there...
...goal leter--Scott Fusco's team-leading 16th--and Hayward was gone. The senior captain, who entered the game first in the nation in save percentage, departed in favor of junior Darren Eliot, the goalie who led Cornell to an ECAC title two years ago with an MVP performance...
There's a lot of talk these days about how unfairly the FBI's been treated. Covert operations, both domestic and abroad, have suddenly regained their chic. Congressional investigations and requests under the Freedom of Information Act that seek to discover how the bureau operates are losing favor as counterproductive and possibly motivated by suspect loyalties to this country...
...sense, then, The Promise of Disharmony is a compelling argument for abandoning the "American Creed" as we have come to know it--abandoning reform, in favor of thoroughgoing and systemic change, in favor of revolution. Huntington seems to agree, at least in part, with the Columbia radicals who were convinced "the system" could never cure the country's ills. What is needed may be the exposure of those buzzwords for what they have become--camouflage for men who have no interest in freedom or justice, who have managed to enslave most Americans with their perversions of these ideas. This...