Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thatcher shares a fear widespread among Tories that in pursuing SALT Carter has lost sight of the global Soviet threat. An early test for the Anglo-American alliance may come over Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Many Tories favor recognition of the new biracial government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. It is unlikely, though, that the Thatcher government would move to recognize the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesian regime prior to the August meeting of the Commonwealth Conference in Zambia...
...Britain's first woman Prime Minister. There were simply too many imponderables. One unanswered question was whether the unions were in such bad grace with the majority of voters that the open support of bosses like Evans and Weighell for Callaghan would tip the crucial swing vote in favor of the Tories. The country's rapidly growing and increasingly restive black and Asian population could be a significant factor, even though less than half of eligible minority voters had bothered to register. Since Thatcher has publicly called for more restrictions on immigration, their vote was expected...
...regulatory climate is turning more favorable for cable operators too, after many years during which the Federal Communications Commission almost strangled the industry's growth by severely restricting the number of signals that cable operators could transmit. The FCC began to ease up in 1972, and last week it took a long further step: the agency's commissioners voted 6 to 1 in favor of a proposal to allow cable operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that...
...when freshman Erol Ceran's pinch base hit to right loaded the bases and the former light-hitting Rick Pearce roped a double to right-center to score two runs. Dartmouth then yanked starter Jim Croteau (who had yielded only a single to Pearce through the first six) in favor of Matt Cairone, whose first pitch was squeeze-bunted by Burke St. John to score pinch runner Paul Scheper with the tying...
...their third round game with Rhode Island. They managed to gain a 6-6 tie, but then lost in overtime when Rhode Island pushed through the go-ahead goal. This single tally proved to be the difference as the Crimson tried fruitlessly to shift the momentum in their favor...