Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Task Force has always held that total dependence upon legal channels is restrictive, requiring exceeding amounts of time and enormous financial expenses. More importantly, it must be recognized that laws in favor of oppressed people are a product of mass pressure. Without a mass movement, many legal victories are quickly and easily undermined. AA is one very beneficial mechanism for bringing about advancements for women and minorities which needs to be protected...
EUROCOMMUNISM: "We should not favor Communists in power [in Western Europe]. But to the extent that Euro-Communism is moving toward de-Stalinization and then to de-Leninization, it is something we should welcome. In the long run, it will affect Soviet control, but it's a slow process. If a West European party comes to power too soon, it could set this process back...
...airlines, railroads, over-the-road truckers and barges are all competitive with one another at some points, it is remarkable that lobbyists for these interests have unanimously recommended Adams' nomination. The one sour note was sounded by consumer groups−taking their cue from Ralph Nader−that favor total rather than partial deregulation. But even they could not accuse Adams of being in the pocket of any interest group or lobby...
...Joseph Pechman− predicts a 4.5% rise in real gross national product next year, but only with sizable stimulation of the economy by Washington. Without it, he says, the increase might be as little as 3.5%. Republican Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis has come around to favor a $10 billion tax cut and says the question now is "not if, but how much...
...saved by business will actually be spent on new plant and equipment? Should the tax cuts be permanent or temporary, the latter putting pressure on the new Administration to keep extending them? Or should they be quickie rebates on taxes already paid? Most liberal economists on the board strongly favor $12 billion in rebates, with perhaps $3 billion in help to business in the form of an increase in the investment tax credit...