Word: favorable
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Even though the Administration is now optimistic about ratification (and polls show a majority of the public in favor), the two amendments will not quell significant opposition. Republican Moderate Robert Griffin of Michigan, who has taken on the job of managing the opposition, denounced the treaties last week as "pregnant with the seeds of acrimony and strife ... fatally flawed and riddled with ambiguity." Senator John Stennis of Mississippi warned that the transfer would cost more than $1 billion. Reagan joined in with a nationwide TV address in which he claimed that the treaties might result in the loss...
...easy. Legalized slot machines in Florida attracted many gangsters in the 1930s, and illegal casinos flourished in the '40s. It was only the Kefauver committee revelations of widespread criminality that brought reforms in the 1950s. Even now a poll shows only a slim majority of Floridians in favor of legalizing gambling. Weiner, however, is counting on a healthy advertising budget, as much as $1 million; he spent $1.3 million in New Jersey...
...year industry is being shaken by a costly battle for market shares that has sent some brewers to search for cash-heavy merger partners, other companies to reassess their marketing strategies, and nearly all the well-known firms to bring out new brands to curry the customers' fickle favor. Small regional brewers can scarcely keep afloat, with the result that sales are increasingly concentrated among the Big Five. Since 1972, Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Jos. Schlitz, Pabst and Coors have increased their combined share of the market from 55.5% to just over 70% last year...
...number of college educators who favor financial help for the middle class but reject tax credits without any ceiling on income have rallied behind Carter. But a few have sided with parochial school forces in favoring tax credits. "Carter's plan is too little and too complicated," argues Middlebury College President Olin Robison...
...hundred and fifty dollars a child is nowhere near enough. And I favor a tax-credit system because it creates no new programs, no bureaucracy...