Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source in the Rules Committee said yesterday the 9-5 tally "is not very close for the committee," adding that both members of the committee who missed the vote would have voted in favor of sending the legislation to the floor for debate...
Herewith our further nominations for the titles of your "audible autos" [May 14]: pontificating Pontiacs, orating Oldsmobiles, garrulous Gremlins, muttering MGs, tittering Thunderbirds, chattering Corvettes, vociferous Volvos, conversant Cadillacs, stuttering Saabs and the omnipresent voluble Volkswagens. We favor articulate, not to mention alliterative, automobiles...
...deters crime and should be retained or is a cruel and unfair form of revenge that ought to be abolished. Sociologists have never definitively answered the question, but the views of the American public, aroused by violent crime, seem clear: polls show that nearly two-thirds of the people favor capital punishment. Accordingly, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1972 against the arbitrary way in which capital punishment was imposed, 34 states have rewritten their death penalty laws to conform with the court's guidelines. State courts have imposed death sentences on about 500 people, nearly half...
...given the situation." Schlesinger actually offered his resignation to Carter in April, but now he regards himself as the messenger despised because he brings bad news. He is determined to stay on. But Schlesinger is so unpopular in Congress, one DOE official confesses, that "just saying we favor something can create votes against...
...could not be simplistically interpreted as a rejection of Francophone rights and ambitions. Another is that Levesque's Parti Québecois government, after 2½ mixed years in office, seems to be losing credibility with the voters. A third is that no more than 20% of Quebeckers favor outright independence for the province...