Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regional director of the NLRB decides in favor of the fired employees, he could attempt to reach a settlement between management and labor, Burton Rosenthal of the NLRB said yesterday, adding that if he cannot, the case will be sent to an administrative judge...
...Vellucci is also walking a thin line--falling out of favor with the Independent bloc might hurt his re-election chances in 1983. He might decide his safest alternative is to back Russell if it appears he can't get the votes himself...
...parts for the spanking new equipment already in place. Round and round the vicious circle spun. The nation's factories operated in 1981 at only 60% of capacity. To make matters worse, poor harvests from 1974 to 1980 ravaged the country's agriculture, which Gierek had foolishly ignored in favor of industrial development, despite the fact that agriculture accounts for 20% of Poland's domestic gross national product. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of supplies and equipment went to the inefficient state farms, while the far more productive private farmers, who own 75% of Poland's arable lands, were shortchanged...
...Yankelovich, 41% urge a decrease in arms sales, while only 10% think more arms should be sold. The current level of sales is acceptable to 27%. On a very narrow arms issue, 70% oppose the sale of jet fighters and other advanced weaponry to Taiwan, and only 21% favor such a transaction, even though 52% perceive the island republic as an ally we can "definitely trust." (The most trusted ally is Canada, with a 90% approval rating; the least trustworthy is Saudi Arabia, with 27%. The Camp David peace partners have virtually identical ratings: Israel 58%, Egypt...
Lisa Henson, 21, was a fast-talking freshman when she complained that the Harvard Lampoon was "the most sexist organization on campus." Hardly a sentiment to win her favor among the club's 45 members, almost all of them male. But over the past two years, the daughter of Muppet Creator Jim Henson clearly made a few "Poonie" friends. Last week she beat out all male rivals for the Lampoon's presidency, to become the first woman to achieve that position in the organization's 105-year history. The deciding factors, says a Lampoon staffer: "Consummate social...