Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eliminating the annual membership meeting in favor of a general election by mail with proportional representation...
...faculties and of the governing boards, it would not have power to bind them. We would hope rather that the members of the Committee would maintain sufficiently close contact with their constituencies that, if a consensus could be reached, the faculties would be likely to respond with favor and the governing boards to approve...
...Greenfield said, finally, "do me a favor...
...reduced by 2 percentage points rather than increased or held at the current 52.8%. Nor would Kennedy move nearly so far as the House did in closing some controversial loopholes. In offering such a vulnerable package, President Nixon took a calculated risk. Though most of the changes would favor businessmen, who are certainly a powerful part of Nixon's political constituency, Administration strategists obviously figured that enough individual cuts remained so that the proposals would withstand political attack...
Bias Against Investment. The Administration's aim, Secretary Kennedy explained to a mostly hostile committee, is to counter the House bill's "bias against investment in favor of consumption." That favoritism, he complained, "could impede economic growth by curtailing the incentive to make productive investments." Accordingly, said Kennedy, Congress should cut taxes on individuals by only $4.8 billion a year instead of $7.3 billion, and the total corporate tax intake should rise by only $3.5 billion instead of $4.9 billion. "We simply do not know enough about the future to commit ourselves" to any larger tax cuts...