Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Ford is doing well because he does not incite strong feelings, seems unlikely to revive the old schisms, and represents normality. The economic recovery works in his favor, and Yankelovich's surveys show that he has won heavy support from people who are optimistic about the nation's future. He is, moreover, seen as an honest, undevious, trustworthy man. A Ford handicap in the current anti-Washington mood is that he is considered one of the run-of-the-mill, "institutional" politicians...
...inquiry into madness is even more so: it is difficult to focus, and there are distinctions to be agreed upon. As examples are amassed and the inquirer's theoretical construct rises, the madness described inevitably assumes a certain flavor and tone. Sometimes there is the circus fascination, fallen from favor in this age of ethics but quite popular in medieval days, where raving lunatics in various aspects of disintegration are portrayed to impress hellish demonology on the mind of the reader. Other times the inquirer insists that his aims are ones of great moral piety, as if in the company...
This is not to imply that Collier and Horowitz gloss over the impact of the Rockefellers in favor of describing exquisite intertribal tensions. Particularly in detailing the history of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five powerful sons, they carefully document the extent and form of the family's influence. In this modern, financially stable stage, their lives are inextricably bound up with the course of the nation, through a welter of foundations, governmental bureaus, financial institutions and the family specialty these days, report-writing panels of experts...
...Crop. The dynamics of U.S. food production has not been so balanced in favor of the consumer since 1971. Dairy prices have gone up 6.5% in recent months, but a decline soon is almost assured because milk production is rising; butter and milk prices are beginning to slide at the wholesale level. Bountiful supplies are also depressing poultry prices. By late summer, say economists, the cost of pork should tumble as more of the big crop of hogs farrowed last winter comes to market. Canners' and distributors' stocks of most fruits and vegetables are large, and in some...
Here are the diplomatic wives who abruptly favor baggy proletarian garb. Here are commonplace people who refuse to take medicine when they are sick; as the Miltons explain, "denial of the flesh" was the sole means of self-sacrifice demanded by Maoism. When the upheaval spreads fear among "rightists," many join ultraleftist factions in frantic overcompensation...