Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Captain Terence O'Neill. Even though the infighting within his Unionist Party had been severe and Catholic-Protestant hatreds were as vitriolic as ever, the odds makers-and a host of other experts as well-were certain that the electorate would come out firmly in favor of O'Neill and his policies of reconciliation. They were wrong. Most of O'Neill's hand-picked candidates had been trounced, and at week's end, the betting around town was heavily against O'Neill's staying in power until the next elections...
...military commander of the anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands. Balaguer also will have opposition within his own middle-of-the-road Reformista Party, which is split between his supporters and those who favor the election of Vice President Francisco Lora next time around...
...Kooning hung out in grimy Greenwich Village cafeterias, endlessly debating the new esthetic and just as endlessly revising the canvases in his studio. De Kooning sought to capture on canvas the continuing essence of the creative act of painting itself. To do this, he jettisoned polished finish in favor of apparently raw brush strokes, which in reality were painstakingly executed and frequently reworked. On another level, he strove to transmute biomorphic forms into a single unending composition...
Despite the arguments in Youth Fare's favor -- and the airlines presented many--neither the court nor the Examiner could find a legal basis for age being used to justify discrimination. As far as air travel goes, there is nothing about the 12-22 group that distinguishes it from any other subgroup of the population--all of whom would like to fly for less...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals has renounced its singleminded dedication to the production of bawdy musical extravaganzas in favor of public-spiritedness and philanthropy...