Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toss out the suspect equations, along with the physical theories underlying them. Yet general relativity has withstood many other tests since it was devised by Einstein more than half a century ago, and more and more scientists believe that the evidence in the skies is rapidly piling up in favor of the reality of black holes...
...Democrats have in many cases usurped the Republicans' traditional positions in favor of lower taxes and less Government spending. As Tennessee Politico Shelton Edwards once observed: "The way to get somewhere in politics is to find a crowd that's going some place and get in front of it." Conservative G.O.P. Strategist Lyn Nofziger grudgingly praises Democrats like California Governor Jerry Brown, who first opposed, then capitalized on his state's property tax revolt. Says Nofziger: "The Democrats are very fast to get in front on such an issue...
...honor of the victorious Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). They thronged the streets, tooting auto horns and shouting political slogans: "Ya ya Balaguer se va. ¿Que felicidad!" (Balaguer is going. What happiness!). After twelve years in office, the defeated Joaquin Balaguer, now 70 and nearly blind, was departing in favor of Politician-Farmer Antonio Guzmán, 67, a Social Democrat. It was the first time in this century that a freely elected President of the Dominican Republic had succeeded another such freely elected President-and it had almost not happened...
...earnestly exhort the electors that they should not let themselves be guided by friendship or aversion, or be influenced by favor or respect toward anyone, or be forced by the intervention of persons in authority or by pressure groups...
...question under intense discussion everywhere: Should the next Pope be a non-Italian for the first time since 1523? Austria's Franz König spoke in favor of that idea; none of his fellow Cardinals, however, appear to be joining such a movement. In fact, Spain's Marcelo Gonzales Martin declared that an Italian would provide the needed "balance and serenity." One seasoned Vatican official-neither a Cardinal nor an Italian-figures the conclave simply will not have the courage to break the centuries-old lock that Italy has on the office, even though non-Europeans...