Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diane Keaton is playing the same unhealthy game that Marilyn Monroe played. Like Monroe, this "vulnerable" and "uncalculating" behavior is obviously an act-to everyone but Woody Allen and TIME. No one is doing Keaton a favor by falling...
...also urged to write or wire their Senators; the argument was made that even though their gas bills might increase under deregulation, a gas shortage could cost them more by imperiling their dividend checks and their pensions. A group of 28 public relations people in Washington assembled arguments in favor of deregulation and sent packets out to field offices around the country...
...current was clearly in favor of the producers. The pro-Administration forces, including labor lobbyists, Naderites and other consumer groups, were loosely allied, often unorganized and, ultimately, no match for the pro-gas juggernaut. Even if the gas interests do not win complete deregulation in the end, they are confident they will get a good price for their product when the two chambers meet in conference to thrash out a final bill. Said James Abourezk, the South Dakota Democrat who launched the filibuster in hopes of thwarting the deregulators: "If you want to talk about lobbying, wait until...
...April 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco ruled in favor of the small farmer, ordering the Government to enforce the 1902 act. Andrus proposes to do that by forcing large landowners to sell off all acreage exceeding the 160-acre limit to small farmers. Last week he announced that a series of ten public hearings on the new regulations would be held in seven Western states and Washington, D.C., beginning next month. "We expect plenty of testimony, plenty, about how the West was won," he said wryly...
Over all, the plot troubles and characterizations balance out in the play's favor, and the script's originality gives both a better footing. Though the play is not generally funny it has a few clever lines, especially its closing one. With Tobie and Punk, Stone shows he has an understanding for embittered escapists and just needs to develop and flesh out his ideas. And most of all, he and his cast take up the challenge of the bizarre and emerge' the better...