Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SURROGATE motherhood may be a job, but it keeps a woman in the home. And that appears to be one point in Marybeth Whitehead-Gould's favor in the eyes of the court...
These columnists won't put it that way. They actually claim to be doing Jackson a favor by demanding that he be scrutinizied "fairly" by both press and politicians. Running him out of the race by hammering him with attacks on his record and his personality are meant to be means of according him the highest honor of "respect." After all Gary Hart and Joe Biden were worthy of respect, so why should Jackson be cut out? He's been given a free ride, the experts contend, and that is a form of racism...
Still, Kaplan said she was very pleased with the jury's decision. "There is nothing more vindicating than a jury's verdict [in your favor]," Kaplan said...
...motion to bar him from ever holding state office in Arizona fell three votes short of a two-thirds majority, with 17 in favor and 13 opposed...
Another factor in ARENA's favor was a leadership change. In 1985 former Army Intelligence Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, linked by Duarte and the U.S. to the death squads, quit as party president under pressure from Washington. But he remains a key figure in ARENA, and he drew large enthusiastic crowds at campaign rallies. D'Aubuisson's successor is Alfredo Cristiani, a graduate of Washington's Georgetown University and scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. His soft-spoken approach evidently convinced some Salvadorans that the party had moderated its views, and many were further swayed by ARENA's slick...