Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comptroller's sanctions against the Calhoun bank. The involved officials have supported Lance's denial. Although the criminal case was closed without prosecution and the agreement was ended -both conveniently just before Lance's confirmation hearings-those actions looked like attempts by minor bureaucrats to curry favor with the incoming Administration. Some Senators, however, expressed suspicion of Lance's contacts, either personal or through his lawyers, with officials making those decisions...
...lack of enthusiasm for White House work occasionally expressed by some of the staff may be more playacting than real. And yet there has always been around the Carter camp the thin feeling that they are doing the country a great favor to come to work at the White House. That is a state of mind that tends to dull the nerve ends...
...impact is heightened by documentary films that splice together bits of prime-time material broadcast last year. A film section on violence, for instance, moves rapidly through 19 scenes of mass murder, bludgeoning, bombing and miscellaneous mayhem. In the film on sexuality, compassionate treatment of sex is viewed favorably, but many scenes are criticized for mechanizing and dehumanizing sex. Among the more eye-stopping examples: Gabriel Kaplan joking about gang rape; a crazed rapist on Baretta telling his victim, "I've broken a lot of necks in my time. I'm glad you know it. It will make...
...more embarrassing controversies, but the problems in the Athletic Department are not over. The inexcusable delay and non-stop politicking that preceded Reardon's selection demonstrate that the department still faces conflicting demands for its limited resources, from both adherents of a strong intercollegiate program and those who favor more intramural and recreational facilities for undergraduates and graduate students alike. This conflict, which in part forced the University's first choice as athletic director to withdraw from consideration for the post last spring, will dog Reardon in his new position...
...feel like we're in the fifth quarter of a football game with the score 21-14 in our favor, but nobody blew the whistle yet." McKevitt said...