Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insist that we are not absolutists, slaves to a literal reading of the First Amendment," Abrams said. "And then we invariably rule in favor of the First Amendment interests at stake," he said...
Abrams said the high court justices' theoretical arguments make it seem that there are limits on the media's freedom, but it invariably rules in favor of the press's right to run a story...
...clear that Kennedy is in favor of the right to organize and collectively bargain," said Chris Doherty '78, a legislative assistant in Kennedy's Senate office...
Part of the appeal to professionals is conformity. In the cold gray dawn of corporate America's morning after, it seems rude to look rosy in pink, which, along with other solid colors, is sliding out of favor. Says Chicago Accountant Edgar L. King, 68: "We financial types have to present a good, clean look, and I've traditionally relied on the white shirt to complement that look." The white shirt's popularity stretches down the career ladder too. Two years ago Charles McCabe traded in his college jeans and sneakers for something more suited to San Francisco's vested...
...triangular island where the three streets come together. Built at the turn of the century, Times Tower (now One Times Square) was the odd but lovable younger sister of the classic Flatiron Building a mile down Broadway -- until its terra-cotta exterior was ripped away in favor of a charmless white marble skin in the mid- 1960s. The dowager has been turned into a cheap mummy, yet the disposition of Times Tower remains an architectural cause celebre. Johnson and Burgee once proposed that the building be stripped down to its steel skeleton, gaily painted and lighted -- a wry Piranesian folly...