Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear what Bush and other Republicans who have espoused right-to-life views are trying to accomplish. While the abortion funding debate worked to their favor, they gave it a prominent slot on the GOP docket. But as soon as they felt a shift in the political weather, they tried to dismiss the issue. "It's no longer important if it puts wind in their sails, not ours," they said, but the voters, especially those in Virginia, didn...
...actually think Fred has done us a great favor by putting this on the ballot," said outgoing Councillor David E. Sullivan. "We're very grateful. We hope he does it again two years from...
...children of Japan's postwar baby-boom generation. "The parents of today's teenagers," says Hayashi, "grew up in a more internationalized, more open Japan. They sang Beatles songs and dressed in Ivy League fashion. They have passed those ideas on to their kids." Little wonder that some favor the retro boom, based on a fascination with the 1950s, while others are enchanted with the 1960s. Vests and jeans, the preferred accoutrements of the '60s, are making a comeback. A funky boutique called the Chicago Thrift Shop not only offers Levi's jeans in both 501 and 505 models...
Archrival R.J. Reynolds has been mailing out videocassettes containing commercials for its Now brand of cigarettes. The company says all the tapes ; were sent to smokers who favor Carlton, a competing brand, in an effort to win them over. But Matthew Myers, staff director of the Coalition on Smoking or Health, contends that RJR's "video loophole" could be used to circumvent Congress's original goal of shielding youngsters from tobacco ads. While the RJR tape is aimed at adults, Myers fears that such ads could creep into videocassettes of teen movies...
Hall's hip, high-intensity style increased the ratings of the troubled show, but it was too late. Fox had already decided to scrap the program in favor of a new late-night entry, The Wilton North Report. "I was able to do a lot of stuff because the Fox executives weren't watching," says Hall. "No one cared." When Wilton North was a quick failure, Fox asked Hall to return. But by this time his attention was elsewhere, notably in movies: he had just shot Coming to America, the first of a three-picture deal with Paramount. Hall turned...