Word: favored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mobile-entertainment center will give us some other options to pursue as the kids get older too. It's got room for a Nintendo system, which I've resisted even at home in favor of allegedly more thought-provoking computer games, and a second stereo system in the rear so that the relentless strains of 'N-sync won't drive the old folks up front 'N-sane. Happily, there's a headphone jack near every seat for music and games as well as TV. On this trip, all passengers will be issued a pair of headphones as they enter...
...stellar Tacoma, Wash., teacher who made the mistake of telling the truth when his principal asked if he was homosexual. No real national gay organization existed, and Vice President Walter Mondale haughtily left a 1977 speech after someone asked him when the Carter Administration would speak in favor of gay equality. To be young and realize you were gay in the 1970s was to await an adulthood encumbered with dim career prospects, fake wedding rings and darkened bar windows...
Boston has shunned the grandiose party plansthat some cities have planned--Atlanta hadconsidered constructing a 600 foot tall steel"A"--in favor of more community-mindedundertakings...
...that style of leadership, obsessing overdetails that are beneath the concerns of hisoffice, may not simply be charming. It may also beharmful to the presidency, as Rudenstine avoidslarger, more important questions in favor ofrelative trivia...
...deeply disappointing that President Clinton's possibly illegal and definitely immoral behavior has been glossed over in favor of partisan bickering, but for better or for worse, he is here to stay...