Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piece of information about Michael, thereby helping the feds to "squeeze" him into helping their cause, she behaves with perfect moral propriety. The trouble is that the standards by which she lives are inadequate to the complex realities of the world journalists are supposed to describe without fear or favor...
...reason that animal metaphors come to mind at all is that Mr. Stockman seemed to favor them in the Atlantic piece, along with agricultural imagery in general. (His name itself is an agricultural image.) At the news conference, he referred to having grown up on a farm, in order to introduce his metaphor of "a visit to the woodshed" that characterized his discussion with the President. That same farm upbringing may also explain why in the Atlantic interviews he remarked on "bullish forces," "pork barrels," "sacred cows," the closing of a program "cold turkey," the taking "something out of Boeing...
Harvard has returned the favor twice since the Depression, in 1940-41 and 1965-66, but overall the Eli defense, not surprisingly, has been the more prodigious, leading in the shutout department, 35-25. Of course, you must remember that there have been seven 0-0 ties in the series, all prior to 1926, and that one team or both was shut out in 30 games prior to 1915. In those days, offenses didn't move, they wallowed...
...primary season. Many have argued that a delegate selection process beginning in January with the lowa caucus and ending in June with the California primary is too long. They cite exhaustion of candidates, boredom of the public, the expense and divisiveness of a prolonged campaign, and a bias in favor of candidates who can devote themselves to campaigning full-time for an extended period...
...like: "Thus, Lewis's Cambridge/Boston situs is unique to The Times, and given that it is America's newspaper of record it is a more startling uniqueness of Cambridge/Boston, one which boasts a local scrivener whose words are read the world over." If the Express--which rejects pictures in favor of text--is to survive, it needs the sort of writing a few of its reviewers are providing, and not bland, badly written and slightly breathless accounts. It should be noted too, that the Publisher, the Associate Publisher and General Manager, and the Associate Publisher and Sales Director...