Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call the Supreme Court's decision in favor of preferential treatment for veterans competing for public jobs "a setback for women's rights" [June 18]. Giving vets job preference is nothing but a little affirmative action by a Government that took away their freedom for a time...
...Valéry Giscard d'Estaing that the Americans "haven't even started" to curb wasteful use of oil. Once the sessions began, however, Carter's principal opponent was not Giscard but German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who conducted what the American President wearily described to aides as a filibuster in favor of the European plan; the difficult personal relations between the two had rarely been more strained. Among the newcomers to economic summitry, Japan's Ohira, the chairman of the meeting, seemed to his colleagues to be unable to control the discussions. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher again came across...
Just as in the panicky period that followed the Arab oil embargo in 1973, the major auto firms were caught off guard by the sudden buyer switch to smaller cars. Of General Motors' new X car line, President Elliot Estes notes: "We guessed in favor of the six-cylinder engines. But right now sales are running 60 to 40 in favor of the fours." GM is getting no help from its big cars either. Sales of the standard Chevrolet are off 20% since January; Buick Le Sabres are limping almost 29% behind 1978's pace, and purchases...
...Diplomat William G. Bowdler, who was on the U.S. team that earlier this year tried to persuade Somoza to step down, met with representatives of the rebel government in Costa Rica. The Americans' mission: to seek agreement on a new peace proposal under which Somoza would resign in favor of a new provisional government dominated by moderates but in which both the Sandinistas and pro-Somoza conservatives would be represented. The rebel government, however, regards the plan as yet another attempt by Washington to interfere in Nicaragua's internal affairs...
...difference between the active and the settled vacation is that the first often contains some stimulation of danger (however small or large) and the second is designed precisely to soothe, to eliminate threat. It is possible that those who do a certain amount of professional gang fighting tend to favor the settled vacation, while more regimented workers may prefer the adventurous vacation. But temperament is probably a more decisive factor. The most obvious purpose of vacations is contrast, interlude, a break in the pace...