Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen minutes later, a gaggle of aides rushed in from the corner office of Chief of Staff James Baker, where they had been following the vote by telephone hookup to the Senate floor. The count: 52 to 48 in favor of the sale. "Thank God!" exclaimed Reagan. Later, posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess...
...completed deal. Interviewed by TIME last week, Brown insisted that no deal had been promised. Rather, Brown said, he wrote to the Saudi defense minister asserting that the Carter Administration had merely "recommended" the F-15 enhancement package to Reagan and stating that it "looked with favor on an ultimate transfer" of AWACS planes to the Saudis. That was scarcely a commitment, Brown argued, and Reagan "could properly have rejected the whole thing, although it might have been embarrassing...
...them in their elections. With the Democrats, Reagan tended to emphasize the need for bipartisanship in foreign policy. Despite Democratic Leader Robert Byrd's strong speech against the sale a week before the vote, the Administration's vote counters felt that the tide had turned in their favor, though most polls showed opponents ahead...
...union's attorneys filed charges of illegal conduct during the spring campaign, accusing Harvard of unfairly influencing the election's outcome. Neither University lawyers nor union organizers expected the NLRB to find in favor of District...
...Faculty Policy Group voted Tuesday 119-30 in favor of the new proposal, which will go into effect...