Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control, but we were afraid," one of the delegates told TIME Correspondent David Greenway, who visited West Irian last week. Others were wooed with gifts of salt, tobacco, cloth, beer, outboard motors and junkets to Djakarta. Between intimidation and persuasion, the Indonesians managed to win a unanimous vote in favor of annexation...
...area. The canals regularly divert billions of gallons of water into the Atlantic after irrigating crops just northeast of the park in Dade and Broward Counties. No reasonable conservationist would sacrifice those crops. But the Interior Department claims that during recent droughts, the water balance was needlessly struck in favor of agriculture, while thousands of fish, birds and animals died in the park. After long bureaucratic squabbling, the Army Corps of Engineers has agreed in principle to supply the Everglades with sufficient water, regardless of other future demands. But the agreement has not yet been carried...
...most comprehensive system of trials, retrials, appeals and post-conviction reviews, Burger said: "If I were sure-and I am not sure either way-that all this was good for the accused in the large and long-range sense that it helps him, I would be enthusiastically in favor of all of it." Among the rehabilitation techniques that the Chief Justice believes should be thoroughly studied by the A.B.A. are work-release programs for prisoners and teaching methods "adapted to the abnormal psychology of the habitual offender...
...with a union that has lost touch with its members. "Tony Boyle and his associates thought they owned the union," said Yablonski after his nomination victory last week. "Now at long last he knows he misjudged the men who belong to this union." Although election odds as of now favor Boyle, dissatisfaction among rank-and-file miners is still growing. The price of Boyle's misjudgment could...
...income taxpayers left out of the measure as reported by his committee. Inclusion of those in the $7,000 to $12,000 categories will cost the Treasury $2.4 billion. Only three-quarters of the time allocated for floor debate was used. Constituent mail has been running so strongly in favor of the measure that few Congressmen were willing to face next year's elections without a safe position on the issue...