Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your magazine falsely reported that I promised President Reagan my vote in favor of the sale of AWACS planes if the vote in the Senate was close. To the contrary, I told President Reagan that I would not commit my vote one way or the other until I had heard the debate in the Senate chamber...
Under pressure from the Europeans, and largely at Haig's urging, the Administration agreed in May to resume INF talks by the end of the year. But Reagan's men had trouble deciding on a bargaining strategy. Weinberger and his Pentagon colleagues tended to favor the zero option. They maintained that it would be the best way to please the Europeans and put the Soviets in a bind. Haig, however, argued that the zero option would both raise false hopes in Europe and hinder serious arms-limitation negotiations with Moscow...
...coincidence, two days after the suicide attempt, a federal district court ruled in favor of two Hinckley defense motions. Judge Barrington Parker said that the suspect's Constitutional rights were twice violated by the Government: first, Hinckley just after his arrest, when federal officials continued questioning him even after Hinckley asked for a lawyer, and again in July, when guards seized Hinckley's diaries from his cell. The illegally obtained evidence, Parker ruled, cannot be used to prove Hinckley guilty of the March shooting, the particulars of which the defense has already admitted. But Parker left unclear whether...
...massing flock of doves produced by these doubts and fears must not be labeled simplistically. For the most part, the protesters are not "neutralists," a term that implies abandoning NATO for an uncommitted stance equidistant from the two superpowers. Nor do they all qualify as pacifists, since many favor the defense of their continent with conventional armaments. Only in Britain and The Netherlands do most missile opponents favor unilateral disarmament, a voluntary gesture that assumes, with immense naivete, that the Soviets would be inspired to come forth and do likewise...
...they "wear clothes suitable for a trip to a disaster area, or for a visit to a zoo or a museum: comfortable, casual, brightly colored, relatively cheap: not calculated to arouse envy or pick up dirt." At home, what the author deems "regional speech" controls fashion. New Englanders still favor the conservative and tweedy British look. The white dress embellished with large flowers reigns in the South as an announcement that one can afford a laundress. Midwestern men favor suits the color of plowed cornfields. The Western states bloom with cowboy boots and ten-gallon hats. The California style, however...