Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble began last January, when Allen received an honorarium from a Japanese magazine, Shufu-no-Tomo (Housewives' Friend), for an interview with Nancy Reagan. He helped arrange the interview as a favor to Chizuko Takase, the wife of his longtime Japanese business associate, Tamotsu Takase. But he says the honorarium was unexpected. Allen insists he intended to turn the payment over to the Treasury Department but simply forgot. When $1,000 in cash was discovered in his safe last September, the FBI was called in and an investigation begun...
...David Owen. But the party will have to choose one designated leader before the next election, a choice that could cause a problem. Within the Social Democrats' inner circle, one faction wants the selection to be made on a one member-one vote basis, a procedure that would favor Williams, whose support is strong among the grass roots. Others want the choice to be decided by the party's M.P.s, who would probably favor Jenkins...
...early dramatic successes. He will move on to Hollywood as a screenwriter, at the time a well-known repository for manque artists. He will go on to become a friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, perhaps most sad, even his early plays would lose favor...
Still with a man advantage, the Crimson maintained its attack, pulling Better in favor of a sixth attacker. The ploy paid off when Starbuck picked the puck out of a scramble in front of the Northeastern goal and deposited it in the net to tie the score with just 39 seconds remaining. Harvard dominated the five-minute overtime, but was unable to capitalize...
Elsewhere, Lurie detects a curious connection between the two most publicized American styles, preppie and punk. In their Brooks Bros, and L.L. Bean gear, preppies favor useless buckles on loafers, buttons on Oxford-cloth collars, straps on raincoats and safety pins on kilted skirts. These fastenings strike the author as powerful agents of emotional restraint. Punkers, on the other hand, leave zippers sagging, shirts unbuttoned and wear safety pins through their cheeks as though the flesh itself is literally exploding with rage. The styles may be disparate, Lurie concludes, but "both graphically convey the sense of a world...