Word: favorable
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...continuing to build a plant in China, but Smith notes that in other countries the economics no longer favor constructing new American-owned factories. "Today," he says, "there is available capacity that you can buy, or possibly you can acquire a company or merge." Other U.S. companies agree, though they are following different strategies...
...retrospect. But with all those caveats, it looks as if the global financial crisis is passing a rather modest turning point. At least it has stopped getting worse, and it may be contained in Asia rather than spread to other regions of the globe. As one happy result, odds favor the U.S. economy's getting through 1999 with nothing worse than a slowdown in growth--not the recession very recently feared...
Blinder agreed that more organized protests are necessary to win over a House that appears to favor impeaching the president...
...argued here one month ago, it is high time that Saddam Hussein be forced out as leader of Iraq. Hussein has been a menace to his own people and to peace-loving people across the globe long enough; sooner rather than later he must be deposed in favor of a government committed to peace and stability in the Middle East. In this light, the most troubling question we have is whether Operation Desert Fox, planned to last just four days, will have a great enough impact on Iraq's capacity for harm. We hope President Clinton has a strategy...
...applaud The Crimson's recognition that the impeachment hearings are the grind of a political machine rather than a fair or rational search for justice (Editorial, Dec. 14). By rejecting censure in favor of pushing for full impeachment the House Republicans have shown blatant disregard for the health of this nation and the will of the people. Polls show that 66 percent of Americans approve of the job that Clinton is doing. That is a much greater figure than Congress' 44 percent approval rating...