Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearings unfolded, he says, "the totality of the evidence began to pile up." Last week Conyers drew a standing ovation from the House floor as he pressed his colleagues to vote for impeachment. The judge "has failed to measure up," the Michigan Democrat declared. Voting in favor of impeachment was a painful task for the civil rights coalition in the House. The dissenters also shared the anxiety. Said California Congressman Mervyn Dymally of his negative vote: "In the final analysis I wanted to be able to sleep. I just had to go by the ((1983)) jury decision...
...Israeli Cabinet meeting last week, two conservative ministers, including Sharon, spoke in favor of annexation, while Labor ministers warned that an expanded Israel would dangerously tilt the balance of the population in favor of the Arabs. No action is expected before the November election of a Prime Minister, which pits hard-liner Shamir against the more moderate Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres, who accepts the concept of a Jordanian- Palestinian delegation at an international peace conference, insisted last week that Hussein's move was "more of a warning than a practical step." One practical consequence, however, may be that Peres...
...candidate should be. The winner: Fidel Chavez Mena, a former Planning Minister, who defeated a challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
...ballistic missile is more complex. The Reagan Administration wants to deploy the ten-warhead MX on railroad cars -- a scheme that might be even more vulnerable to surprise attack than our current system of triple-warhead Minuteman ICBMs in underground silos. Many in Congress (along with Schlesinger and myself) favor the single-warhead Midgetman deployed on mobile launchers, but the very high cost of such a system cannot be ignored. Another option consistent with Dukakis' position would be the deployment of Minuteman in multiple protective shelters (the so- called shell game). The real test for the next President is whether...
Inevitably, some staffers fall out of favor. Says another former employee: "Only the best survive. At Nomura, one mistake and you're out." Not out, exactly, since Nomura, like most large Japanese companies, guarantees lifetime employment. But "failures" find themselves on a track to nowhere; they become what the Japanese call madogiwa-zoku, or those who sit idly by a window. More than a few failures have moved on to rival companies and report that they do not for a moment miss their life at Nomura. Says one: "It's a rare Nomura man who has a good career...