Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...garden party which was Eliza's trial by fire, Higgins and his companion Colonel Pickering are filled with the nervous energy of expectation instead of the self-satisfied exhaustion they should be feeling after the successful ordeal they shared. But ironically even this weakness ends up working in favor of the production. This Pygmalion links its audience to the lack of connection between the classes in this age. It is as though, instead of having tried to make real contact with the poor, the actors, like the middle class philanthropists they are parodying, simply leave the money...
After a five-hour debate, House Speaker Tip O'Neill called for a vote on the bill. Those in favor shouted their votes louder than the opponents, and O'Neill announced that the ayes had it. At that moment, according to House procedure, a Congressman may request a roll call. But one of the bill's chief opponents, California Republican Paul McCloskey, was engaged in conversation and did not realize what had happened as O'Neill moved on to other motions...
After nearly ten months of closed-door sessions and intensive staff work (not to mention occasional leaks to the press), the House Ethics Committee last week held the first public airing of its investigation of South Korea's attempts to curry favor in the U.S. by bribing Congressmen and other officials. Not surprisingly, the three days of hearings further depressed relations between the U.S. and South Korea, which were already at an all-time low. Committee Special Counsel Leon Jaworski expressed the mood on Capitol Hill in his opening statement before the committee. The regime of President Park Chung...
Perhaps the most devastating of terrorist tactics, skyjacking has been in and out of favor with urban guerrillas. It crested in 1972, when there were 62 attempts. The total dropped as nations began instituting tough airport inspection procedures, but seems to be on the rise again...
Lance's exit especially troubles businessmen because they feel Carter, whatever his own sentiments, has filled the Administration's second-level posts with people who have no sympathy for them and favor more regulation. Oilmen are particularly suspicious of S. David Freeman, who helped Schlesinger draft the energy program; they regard him as a doctrinaire conservationist who does not even want to increase energy production. William P. Tavoulareas, president of Mobil Oil Corp., adds that "everybody we see in the Interior Department these days is an environmentalist...