Word: favorability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to an Assoicated Press-NBC News poll, a majority of Americans favor a halt in construction until the public safety can be assured...
...I.O.S. board fired Cornfeld as chair man and called in New Jersey Financier Robert Vesco, who returned the favor by milking the funds of an estimated $227 million. He absconded in 1972 to Costa Rica and later the Bahamas. Angered at the way the I.O.S. shambles had be smirched their reputation for financial probity, the Swiss seized Cornfeld when he returned to the country in 1973 and held him for eleven months while they tried to assemble a case...
...majority of the clerics still favor nonviolence. How does the so-called Christian left, then, justify violent action? "Effective love of neighbor sometimes requires drastic measures," one of the movement's priests told TIME. "Our decision to go for armed struggle was forced upon us. It has become clear this is not a reformist government. It is a fascist government...
...between the Red Sox and the Yankees in Fenway Park. The present President, Jimmy Carter, was invited, but ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were not. That was the decision of the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith; they outvoted Brother Ted, who did not favor the public snub...
...creative energy expended in this novel has not, apparently, exhausted Lessing's supply. She has announced a companion volume, to be published next year, in what may become an even longer series. That is good news, but the Shikastan habit of ignoring present pleasures in favor of a chimerical future should be avoided. For the moment, it is enough to welcome an audacious and disturbing work from one of the world's great living writers. -Paul Gray...