Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beaten only twice on important measures he has brought to the House floor. The initial defeat occurred in 1958, on the very first major measure he agreed to report out of committee. The second came last year, after the Administration blandly assured him that there were enough votes in favor of a bill to raise the debt ceiling. The count was wrong. Both setbacks apparently seared Mills's soul. In between, he built himself a name as "Ol' Never-Miss Wilbur," and he is reluctant to put that reputation on the line for anything as uncertain...
...years to defeat the U.S. in Viet Nam. And there is also much in Giap's new strategy that flies in the face of his own guerrilla doctrine of warfare. One of his maxims is to fight only when the odds are overwhelmingly in his favor and success is certain, a precept that his troops violated nearly everywhere they struck in the course of his general offensive last week. What lies behind Giap's turnabout, which in its sanction of attacks on cities and towns constitutes the most important change of tactics by either side...
...long-winded report delivered before the Central Committee by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and the chief of Cuba's armed forces and internal security. Named as the conspiracy's ringleader was Anibal Escalante, 59, a onetime party chieftain who fell from favor in 1962 for his pro-Soviet views but was later allowed to return to Cuba after a two-year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University of Havana, the Academy of Sciences, several youth...
...attracted to a company that has few shares outstanding, induces his customers to buy the stock, and puts only 5% ($1,000,000) of his buying power into it, the demand is likely to drive the stock up simply because its supply is so limited. Many brokers tend to favor lower-priced issues because they carry higher commissions. Quite a few also like to find a "hot" industry and then recommend one of the most depressed companies in the field. Explains one top broker: "In a good industry, with profits going up quarter by quarter, even the garbage is going...
...decorators and clients alike, the most important part of the entire undertaking is the in-depth interviewing at the very outset. Do the members of the family live formally or informally? Do they favor buffet suppers or sit-down dinners? Do they play bridge? Are they hi-fi buffs? Do they have young children or teenagers? What are their hobbies? Working with a decorator is thus something like going to a psychiatrist, only more expensive: name decorators reckon on spending at least $10,000 for each room and a minimum of $50,000 for an entire house...