Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret Service agents have already urged him, so far without success, to give up his armored Ford LTD sedan-originally made for the President of Mexico -in favor of an equally armored but roomier Continental limousine...
...Syrians, moreover, have even been able to put diplomatic pressure on the battered Palestine Liberation Organization. In what Arab sources interpreted as a bitter concession, the Palestinians last week accepted a "half-a-loaf" settlement they had consistently refused when the U.N. General Assembly voted 90 to 16 in favor of establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Previously, the Palestinians had always vowed that they would accept nothing less than the elimination of Israel as a state...
...idea for the congress during a five-month solitary retreat to the desert in 1974. It is the product of what he calls the Third Universal Theory (the other two being capitalism and Communism). As outlined in his single-chapter Green Book, the theory rejects democratic representation in favor of direct participation by the masses. Municipalities, trade unions and professional groups establish committees, which in turn choose delegates to the congress "by consensus." The congress convenes at Gaddafi's whim...
...some respects, the new police mood seems anomalous. It has been years since they heard the radical chants of "Pig!" Those insults-combined with the long list of Warren Court rulings in favor of criminal defendants-marked a nadir for police morale. Since then, however, the eight-year Republican Administration has pumped $5 billion through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, much of it to improve local police departments. Under Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court has decidedly tilted back toward the prosecution side. By many measures, the policeman's lot today would seem to be a happier...
...been passing the word that he might eventually back a cut if the economy continues to be sluggish-though he would prefer a permanent tax reduction that would benefit corporations as well as individuals, rather than the one-shot rebate on 1976 individual income taxes that some Carter advisers favor...