Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They certainly had reason to be wary. The search committee was weighted heavily in favor of the graduate schools--three of its five members were associated with either the Law or Business Schools, and even its chairman, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finance and adminstration and presumably a representative of the College's interests, has stated the new director should be sensitive to the needs of "nontraditional constituencies" like faculty and graduate students. Moreover, graduate school alumni had reportedly contributed up to $3 million toward the construction of the University's new athletic complex...
...liberalization of laws that would allow more adoptees to identify or find their natural parents is something I favor. However, I can see no social value whatsoever in proclaiming to the world the names of these parents...
...Latin America, the largest gathering of its kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they may prove hard to get. Opponents, meanwhile, talk of stalling the treaty with parliamentary motions or hobbling it with reservations...
...artistic reasons but also as an investment. As a result of heightened demand, the price of good English furniture in some parts of the country has increased about 25% a year during the past four years. Dick Kritsky, a California grocery-store manager, has spurned the stock market in favor of collecting hand-painted whisky bottles sold by Hass Brothers of San Francisco, distillers of Cyrus Noble bourbon. He has assembled 45 bottles, appraised at $4,000; prudently, Kritsky does not open the bottles but keeps them filled with their original bourbon...
...bombed-out glass front to talk about Puerto Rican terrorists-a story on which ABC breathlessly lavished twice as much tune as the other networks. Such new tactics have generated a flood of newspaper rumors: Is ABC's expensive anchor team of Walters and Harry Reasoner out of favor? About to be fired, about to quit? No. About to be downplayed? Yes. Roone Ar ledge is radically challenging the conventional anchor role itself...