Word: favorable
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...nation for those very reasons. The aim, apparently, is to present Carter as a prudent manager, aware that the tangled complexities of guiding a growing but troubled economy prevent any President from doing everything at once, ready to put off those goals that are merely desirable in favor of those that are essential. The program's main elements...
...enforcement, complete with full page ads in the Washington Post. They went to court and argued that an environmental impact statement (which would delay enforcement by at least a year) was required before the rules could be carried out. A federal district court in Fresno, California ruled in their favor. Taylor, a champion of the 160-acre restriction since the 1920's, has dismissed the lawsuit as "another one of their delaying tactics. If you include human beings in the environmental impact, the result is clear," he said recently...
...brief time last summer it looked as though a President had finally found the wherewithal to stand up to the corporate lobby in favor of the small farmer and economic justice. If the amendments Carter introduces to the Reclamation Act of 1902 in the next Congressional session significantly raise the 160-acre ceiling, the self-styled Georgia peanut farmer will have sided with agribusiness against the defenseless, the rootless, the unemployed, and the landless...
...upshot was a stern warning from the State Department. "Recent developments in Italy," said State, "have increased the level of our concern. Our position is clear: we do not favor [Communist participation in government] and would like to see Communist influence in any Western European country reduced. The U.S. and Italy share profound democratic values and interests, and we do not believe that the Communists share those values and interests." That kind of language, while several decibels below the threatening warnings of Henry Kissinger, nonetheless marked a new high point of concern by the Carter Administration on the subject...
...residents' arguments in favor of the petition emphasized the "character and "charm" of the neighborhood. About 25 neighbors attended the hearing, most of them voicing support of the petition, citing such reasons as the importance of preserving open space in the mostly residential section of north Cambridge...