Word: favorable
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...most professional diplomats. As ambiguous as any oracle. Carter has bestowed some of these loaded words on just about every aggrieved party in the Arab-Israeli conflict; but for the moment at least, the Israelis seem to be getting the worst of it. After Carter had announced himself in favor of a Palestinian "homeland," there were widespread suspicions that the President might be laying the groundwork for a subtle shift in American policy-not really away from Israel, but perhaps a bit more toward the Arabs...
...note. The President was greeted by a full-page ad in the Clinton daily Item urging him to save the American shoe industry by imposing stiff tariffs and quotas on imports. Earlier in the week, the Government's independent International Trade Commission, which is already on record in favor of protecting the shoemakers, had called for tight curbs on U.S. imports of sugar and color-television sets as well. "The protectionist heat is on," said a top Carter economic aide. "Suddenly trade is a very high-priority issue...
...corner in the world of Harvard theater. The Bible claims, "Revenge is mine, thus saith the Lord." For all of us who are faced with a rainy Saturday afternoon choice between "The Wild Kingdom" and old Hollywood re-runs, the South House Drama Society's satire is a divine favor...
...cannot initiate any action; it is not a prosecuting body. No charge concerning the administration was brought before us, and we therefore considered none. The statement as it appears in The Crimson implies that the CRR made a deliberate decision in favor of the administration, to ignore alleged misdemeanors; it is to that extent a misrepresentation of what I said. Isabel G. MacCaffrey Professor of History and Literature
Finally, the representatives of the residents of Mather, in the form of the House Council, actually voted in favor of this dinner, presumably with the wishes and interests of their constituents in mind. It seems foolish of Epps to prohibit a regular dinner that had been designed to inconvenience Mather residents as little as possible, and which residents' representatives had endorsed...