Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mystique seems particularly appealing in 1988. The yearning that some feel to cast a protest vote or express a passion for social change has been partly reflected in the success of Jesse Jackson's candidacy. But the triumph of George Bush and Michael Dukakis has submerged political passion in favor of pragmatism and efficiency. Each has his programs and respectable records. Dukakis even tries to evoke the Kennedy legacy. But they pale in comparison to the faded photographs of Bobby reaching out to endless seas of eager hands and exciting admiring crowds. Bush has apologized to his supporters...
Schkolnick spoke in favor of the measure atboth Wednesday committee meetings
Modern historians are disdaining political history in favor of social, economic and ethnic history, and are wrongly overspecializing in their fields, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 said in a speech last night at Harvard Law School...
Like true dramatists, the writers have sidestepped round-the-clock picketing in favor of more theatrical performances. Some 3,000 members picketed Walt Disney studios last month as a plane flew overhead trailing a banner that read STOP MICKEY MOUSING AROUND WITH OUR W.G.A. Last week they carried giant-size pencils and a banner in front of the Manhattan offices of Orion and Columbia Pictures. Line crossing is taboo. Says a writer: "This is a company town, and if word gets out that someone's a scab, they'd be barred from the guild for life...
...Despite the quirky tendency of Democratic voters to turn against front runners, Dukakis appears assured of capturing at least two-thirds of the 1,000 delegates still to be elected. A majority of the 643 super-delegates -- public and party officials who are nominally unpledged -- are also known to favor Dukakis. These recruits, together with scores of delegates now uncommitted or hooked to defunct candidates, will provide the critical mass necessary to settle the issue...