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Word: favority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show of hands on whether the Federal Government should help the ailing Chrysler Corp. in its financial troubles. Insisted an insurance man in the town of Washington: "They should have the same right to go broke as I do." Nevertheless, the vote there was 18 to 10 in favor of a federal loan guarantee for Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What's on the Voter's Mind | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...toughest, perhaps most emotional issue confronting nurses is whether they should be directly supervised by physicians. Many doctors favor expanding nurses' responsibilities, letting them handle minor problems, if only to give physicians more time for more serious cases. Nurses often do this anyway, with doctors' encouragement. But the majority of physicians, including many of the new women M.D.s, still insist on complete control. As they like to say: "If nurses want to act as doctors, they should go to medical school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rebellion Among the Angels | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Even in the euphoria following the historic Camp David agreements last September, everyone knew the hard part was yet to come. While Egyptian-Israeli relations began a new era, the central issue of the Middle East remained unsettled: the fate of the Palestinian people. The Arab states basically favor an independent sovereign state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a home both for Palestinians already living there and for millions now in the diaspora. The Israelis, appalled at the notion of a hostile state, perhaps run by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Putting on the Pressure | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...trust is the belief that judges are impartial. New York Lawyer Simon Rifkind, a former judge, notes: "Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives. You have to be habituated to it." Some judges never lose the attitudes they brought to the bench; lawyers complain that judges who were prosecutors favor the state, and judges who were defense lawyers favor the defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...regular golf game with an Alliance lawyer ended when he had to rule on a close case in his friend's favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chewing on It in Nebraska | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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