Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranks and vestments are intended to enhance morale in an army whose power and prestige have been diminished by Chinese leaders determined to de- emphasize military might in favor of agricultural and industrial reform. After consolidating his power in 1978, Deng Xiaoping used a mixture of cajolery, cash incentives and hard-knuckle politics to oust military officers from top provincial and party posts. Since 1985, 1 million men and women, including 455,000 officers, have been mustered out. Though still 3.5 million strong, the PLA has lost its position as the world's largest military organization to the 5.2 million...
...American countries. English has increasingly collided with Spanish in retail stores, offices and classrooms, in pop music and on street corners. Anglos whose ancestors picked up such Spanish words as rancho, bronco, tornado and incommunicado, for instance, now freely use such Spanish words as gracias, bueno, amigo and por favor...
...judge finds in her favor, the marketing scholar will become the fifth tenured woman in the school's 80-year history and one of four women among the current 90-member faculty...
...this point I questioned Sr. Rodolfo closely on his political statements. Was he a strong PRI candidate, or were so many people in favor of the ruling party that Salinas was guaranteed...
...disadvantage. He has been tainted by the Iran-contra affair and questions about his involvement with Panama's Manuel Noriega. "We're all waiting for the other shoe to fall," says Geri Elich, elementary-school librarian and a Republican. In fact, most people dislike Bush more than they favor Dukakis. Says Prineville Mayor Wally Boe: "People aren't enthusiastic about Bush. They haven't been exposed enough to become unenthused with Dukakis...