Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop eating until I am hungry again." And even as the Soviets were congratulating themselves on the effectiveness of their "noble gesture" on British public opinion, the steam was visibly going out of Britain's ban-the-H-bomb movement. The noise made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar Square in a protest march to the Aldermaston nuclear weapons research center 50 miles from London. But their public impact seemed to be fading...
Parents who oppose higher entrance requirements argue that higher standards would "hurt the student who is just average." Principals in favor of the move think it would eventually force high schools to raise their own standards...
...attack on such chiseling by "a few unscrupulous dealers" is being led by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. He has sponsored a bill requiring that every new car in a showroom be clearly labeled with the maker's list price. Some Detroit carmakers are privately in favor of the bill as a way of regaining customer trust...
...National Automobile Dealers Association is also in favor of the Monroney bill. In addition, it wants carmakers to set a national list price-and disenfranchise dealers who ignore it-instead of the present practice of different list prices in different areas. But carmakers are not yet ready to go that far. Says retired Rear Admiral Frederick Bell, executive vice president of N.A.D.A.: "We think the Monroney bill is a step in the right direction of taking the razzle-dazzle and hocus-pocus out of auto pricing...
Some unions also favor industrywide bargaining on the principle that employers can then no longer play off one local against another. But many union leaders oppose it, recognizing that it minimizes labor's ability to play one employer against the other...