Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall well below its sales target of 275,000 to 300,000 units this year. Another disappointment: AMC's Pacer, which took off briskly when introduced a year ago, posted sales of more than 100,000 in the first ten months or so, then abruptly fell out of favor. To get sales moving again AMC is now throwing in free $425 air conditioners with all Pacer purchases...
Although most students favor a switch from late January to pre-Christmas exams, support for the switch may not be large enough to effect a calendar change, according to the results of a survey of undergraduates released yesterday...
...word is peculiar to Philadelphia. Rizzo has built a substantial machine which includes the police and trade unions as components. The nation's press, however, has a habit of sharing intimidation. And if Philadelphia's newspapers, out of fear of recriminations, start letting the chips fall in Rizzo's favor, it's possible that other politicians may also begin to prefer the mob to the letter to the editor...
...reluctant informer, is remarkable and invaluable in preventing the film from being no more than a historical record, a documentary in the dullest sense of the term. In fact, the entire Woodward-Bernstein relationship is built up not in the script (where Redford ordered it played down in favor of showing their procedures) but through fleeting exchanges of glances and gestures caught, as it were, out of the corner of an alert camera's eye. Even so, the failure to explore their relationship with more fully dramatized incidents, good sharp verbal exchanges, is a major flaw, giving the picture...
...family was deeply alarmed by his visible deterioration. David Eisenhower was afraid that his father-in-law might go mad. He knew how tense and brittle the President was, and feared that his reason could not survive the harsh and total withdrawal of the public's favor...