Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gallows Humor. Though Ford's promised veto probably means that Congress will not pass legislation to avoid default, some liberals insisted on trying anyway. The Senate Banking Committee voted 8 to 5 in favor of a bill that would guarantee $4 billion in loans to New York and put the city, until it balances its budget, under the control of a three-member federal board headed by conservative Treasury Secretary William Simon. More to the point, the House and Senate are expected to act quickly to amend federal bankruptcy laws along the lines suggested by Ford...
...this sense of democracy's frailty in the face of social unrest that marks the Public Interest writers, most of whom teach politics and the social sciences at leading universities and are generally labeled "neoconservatives." Most of them were once liberals in favor of Big Government, more equality and wider distribution of wealth. In recent years they have concentrated on the need to lower expectations in Government and strive for social stability...
Harvard has a couple of points in its favor in the new pact, as Edward W. Powers, the University's director of employee relations and chief labor negotiator, pointed out las week. For one thing, Letteri withdrew one of his major demands, that 10 to 12 patrolmen be added to the force, before the union and Harvard even went into mediation. In addition, the 18-month duration of the pact, six months longer than the old contract, is a significant plus for Harvard...
...handwriting is on the wall. Not really, though, because there's another line of sports imagination which would fill the bill for today's game in Harvard's favor. And that's the Substitute Hero syndrome...
...presenting a unified slate and increasing their constituency, the candidates hope to tip the political balance in their favor and capture five of the nine seats on the council...