Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University secretaries and technicians had the same community of interest; the union contended that because of the Med Area's location downtown, its clerical and technical personnel had distinct interests. Following three years of procedural twists and turns, the federal National Labor Relations Board ruled in District 65's favor, declaring that the Med Area did in fact compose an appropriate bargaining unit...
...Equal Rights Amendment desperately. President Reagan--the first recent president to oppose a constitutional amendment that provides equal rights for women--has proposed removing many of the existing regulations that protect women's rights in employment, education, credit, and other areas. Although polls show a majority of Americans favor the ERA, its progress remains stalled. And administration plans prove that legislation alone will not protect women's rights, for current laws can be repealed at any time and existing laws are not adequate...
...sale. One was New Hampshire Republican Warren Rudman; nominally uncommitted, he was actually lobbying on its behalf before formally announcing his support. Another was Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma, who said he was leaning against the sale after visiting Saudi Arabia last April, but then began arguing in its favor with Democratic conservatives. Louisiana's Long had already promised the President his support if the vote were close. So had Republicans John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Robert Kasten of Wisconsin...
...forces, the largest non-Soviet military group within the Warsaw Pact, have a tradition of austere professionalism, which stands in stark contrast to the corruption that has plagued Poland's civilian bureaucracy and angered the people. A recent national poll showed that civilians ranked the army third in favor among the country's institutions, just behind the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. (The party came in a poor sixth, trailing even the hated police.) During the riots over food price increases in 1976, General Wojciech Jaruzelski showed how closely the army was allied with the people when...
Lehrer attributes his fall from favor in the late '60s to a sudden inappropriateness "of my kind of humor." Using the tools of his mathematical trade, he calls his appeal a "bi-modal distribution." "The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their Mad-magazine years picked me up also," Lehrer says. The group in between, who were in college during "that less humorous time," never accepted Lehrer's brand of humor...