Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troika may also have been Brezhnev's first step in breaking up the ruling hierarchy. Also dismissed last week was Konstantin Katushev, 49, once the youngest member of the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, who was believed to be on a meteoric rise. Katushev apparently lost favor for having organized last June's summit meeting of Europe's Communist parties, at which several party bosses flaunted their independence from Moscow. His replacement is Konstantin Rusakov, 68, a Brezhnev protégé with long experience in Eastern Europe who may have better luck in dealing with...
...Administration's choice as head of the U.S. liaison office in Peking (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Although most of the U.A.W.'s leaders were among Carter's strongest union supporters last year, many of them fear that he is abandoning his campaign promises of social reforms in favor of balancing the budget...
...Hard a Sell. The Japanese reaction was surprisingly positive. For months the Japanese, who are running a big trade balance in their favor, have been pressed by their Western trading partners to hold down their exports and import more foreign goods. Reported Yomiuri Shimbun, a Tokyo daily: "A realization has been deepening in the industry that Japan had gone too far in pushing sales...
Condon treats these complicated forces as if they all added up to the mechanism of a cuckoo clock. The characters pop in and out of beds and public favor with predictable but amusing regularity. Condon's style, which has seemed preachy and sodden in recent years, achieves some of the snap and malice that enlivened such earlier works as The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate. Caroline, he writes, "tends to overdress except at the bod ices, which are cut so low, the gossip goes, that one can see the top of Sir Sid ney Smith's head...
...Young recalls, parietals ruled the Yard. Of course, parietals were supposed to be the bane of the existence of sexually permissive students. But someday a revisionist Harvard historian will no doubt put together a different story about parietals, one which would lead you to believe that parietals worked in favor of just what they were supposed to be discouraging. Young says, under the rules, women were allowed in the mens' rooms from four until seven p.m. on the weeknights and four until eight p.m. on the weekends. "If a guy and a girl were studying past seven p.m., say until...