Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miller's long career at Textron and service on various business and government committees have given him a wide acquaintanceship in the financial community, and most businessmen and bankers hailed him as one of their own. Miller will have to be a miracle man to keep that universal favor; his cheering section includes both people who predict that he will be less tight on money than Burns, and others who assert with equal confidence that he will prove just as conservative and independent as the chairman he replaces. But for the moment the only discordant notes came from some...
...bank that is running in the red, has suspended dividends, and saw the price of its stock sink as low as $8.50 a share before the cash-laden Saudi stepped in? Last week Pharaon met with reporters in Atlanta and brushed aside suggestions that he was trying to win favor with President Carter, who reluctantly last September accepted the resignation of his friend Lance as budget boss. Said Pharaon airily: "Why should I buy influence? If I ever wanted to meet the President, we have ways of meeting him through our own channels...
...example, Reynolds did a favor for his friend Hal Needham, a stuntman who had the opportunity to direct if he could get Reynolds to star in the picture. The result was a little number called Smokey and the Bandit, nothing much more elaborate than a 90-minute car chase, with Jackie Gleason playing a sheriff in hot, exasperated pursuit of Reynolds' good-ole-boy trucker. The film cost about $4 million. The last time anyone looked, it had grossed about $100 million, second only to the phenomenal Star Wars for 1977. Reynolds' latest picture, Semi-Tough, has been doing business...
...mercurial, left-leaning troublemaker. By his refusal to denounce the coup, Kissinger seemed to tilt toward Sampson and the military rulers. Then, when democracy replaced dictatorship in Greece, and Turkey switched from being an aggrieved neighbor to an often brutal occupier of Cyprus, Kissinger shifted his stance in favor of Ankara. Throughout the episode, in the metaphor of Author Stern's title, the U.S. backed "the wrong horse...
What looked to be a replay of the aggressive game in Providence less than a month ago between the two clubs went completely haywire in Harvard's favor late in the second period. With 1:05 remaining in the stanza and the Crimson on top 3-2, Harvard proceeded to rip off three goals in 47 seconds...