Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OPEC nations are actually supplying the incentive for their own replacement in the marketplace by making alternative energy sources competitive with petroleum. They are doing the world a great favor...
Despite the change in Secretaries, Treasury policies are likely to remain pretty much the same. In fact, Miller has been something of a Blumenthal protege. The two men, moreover, are products of the urbane world of Big Business and both favor liberal social policies. When they breakfasted together, as they did almost every Tuesday, they found that they disagreed more about what to eat than about the kind of economic policy the nation should pursue. Like Blumenthal, Miller is committed to an all-out fight against inflation, large government and budget deficits. The new Secretary also believes in helping business...
...order the site bombed into the Stone Age, or at least until the credits roll? Each finish was filmed, and each had its supporters, with the movie's distributor, United Artists, rather partial to the more pulverizing-and just possibly more profitable-version. The director, however, began to favor a calmer conclusion and will close his film without the fireworks. At least for now. "Francis just loves to fiddle," explains one of his aides. "It's in his makeup...
After deliberating for twelve hours in 1971, a jury in New York City was split 11 to 1 in favor of convicting a defendant of first-degree robbery. But Justice Arnold G. Fraiman could wait no longer for a unanimous verdict. Having announced earlier: "I have another engagement," he declared a mistrial and dismissed the jurors. The engagement was a European vacation with his wife, who reportedly was waiting in the courthouse with their suitcases. Another judge dismissed the charges because retrying the defendant would violate his constitutional right against double jeopardy...
This is the expensive Dracula that the gang at Hammer films must have dreamed of making back in the '50s and '60s. The legend had fallen out of general favor back then, and only B-picture makers and their fans still cared about the ineffable Transylvanian count and the strange folkloristic ways of fighting off his baleful influence (garlic on the windowsills, stakes through the heart, that sort of nonsense). Like those old programmers, the new Dracula is shot in the high gothic-romantic tradition, lushly scored and terribly serious about itself and its subject matter...