Word: favorable
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Soares' basic strategy was to play off the opposition parties against each other in order to get a majority vote. But eventually, the Social Democrats and the C.D.S., both of which favor an expansionist economic policy, found it intolerable to support policies that they had no role in formulating. The crunch issue was a proposed $1.5 billion loan from a consortium of Western countries and the International Monetary Fund. The conservative opposition accused Soares of yielding too easily to the IMF's insistence on such restrictions as low economic growth (1%), devaluation of the escudo and other austerity...
Madigan may be a sometime media hit man for Da Mare's heirs, but he is democratic in his choice of victims. He has blasted all three of the city's major dailies for editorializing in favor of equal opportunity but compiling poor minority-hiring records themselves, and for red-lining their newspaper vending machine out of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman...
...which sounds perhaps like the last days of the Roman Empire. Yet Americans are certainly eating more wisely than they did in the days when a hunk of steer and a stack of fries were the banquet supreme. Contemporary Americans favor lighter, shorter meals?a far cry from the XXVII-course banquets that forced the Romans to repair to imperial latrines to vomit between dishes ?in which every succulent leaf and crumb has been thoughtfully purchased, planned and prepared...
...than an evolving capacity resulting from the interplay of mental quickness and environmental conditioning. It is also possible that such personal traits as drive and persistence-factors that IQ tests cannot measure-are as important as inherent reasoning ability. Furthermore, most psychologists agree that the tests are biased in favor of middle-class children (blacks as a group score 15 points lower than whites). And there is a persistent danger that an IQ may become a labeling device. One Florida teacher gave his students more challenging assignments after noticing numbers ranging from 130 to 160 after their names; only later...
...consequence, straight IQ tests are being gradually abandoned in favor of tests that claim merely to measure academic ability. McGraw-Hill, for example, is quietly retiring its old standby, the California Test of Mental Maturity, to avoid "identifying a child with a fixed number." Instead, the firm is promoting a new Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. It reports verbal and nonverbal scores separately, rather than one intelligence quotient-although a mental-age score is still available upon request...