Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feud's effect on military unity. They decided to invite the two men to talk things over. In a heated and often an gry confrontation that ran on for nearly three days, the commanders urged Ky and Thieu to compose their differences or resign from office in favor of a caretaker government. Both refused...
...assumption that we could count on the applause and support of the other countries has disappeared. No European or American nation has rallied to our side. Few leaders dare speak in our favor. In Asia, propinquity to the assumed danger, the most aggressive arm-twisting has not brought us allies, only a few clients...
This is not all bad to Galbraith, who has the economist's frequent bias in favor of planning and government involvement, and who would like to see more of both applied to such challenges as urban blight and health care. He is also greatly alarmed that the U.S. and other industrial societies are falling into a "comfortable servitude" by overemphasizing the quantity of production at the expense of the quality of life...
Turned Corner. By throwing out Proposition 14, it ruled in favor of open housing in California, but it also served notice that it would not protect civil rights demonstrators who violate legitimate local laws. On obscenity, the court continued to find most works protected by the First Amendment. But it did suggest that distasteful purveying of borderline works or selling to minors may well be legitimate criminal offenses if legislation is drawn with proper narrowness. On individual rights, the court found that a U.S. citizen cannot be deprived of his citizenship for voting in another country's election...
...freshman seller (who retired at the end of the year) made enough money to buy a television set. But most of the students do it as a favor and don't make much profit off their sales. The ones who do are the larger dealers in the Cambridge area (some of them former Harvard students), who in turn get drugs from New York and, ultimately, from Mexico...