Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loose tongue of the chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability is increasingly bothersome to the White House. Within two working days. Press Secretary Jody Powell twice had to "clarify" Kahn's statements. First the inflation czar told a congressional committee that he did not favor Carter's plan to decontrol oil prices. Soon afterward presidential aides apparently changed Kahn's mind. Said Kahn: "I am now 100% behind the decision to decontrol. I always have been 49½% behind it." Then he told an AFL-CIO rally that failure of voluntary wage-price guidelines...
...does not mention her by name, and he has warned his aides against any personal attacks for fear of a backlash. Women make up more than half of the electorate, and polls show that more women vote Conservative than vote Labor. Somewhat surprisingly, working-class women tend to favor Thatcher more than middle-class women do, and the Tory leader can discuss supermarket prices with a housewife's familiarity. Nevertheless, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week could not resist a quip about former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath's all-out efforts in the campaign. Said...
There was a time not so long ago when few Roman Catholic priests dared request release from their vows. Fewer still were granted such a request. But since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has faced a flood of applications for "laicization," and agitation in favor of making the celibacy rule optional continues...
...fuel-injected Minneapolis Tangerine," it was jokingly called) to a sober newspaper of record ("the Minneapolis Times, "after a certain self-important daily in New York City)-the committees selected a middle course. The result: the Star's traditional no-frills hard-news approach was shucked in favor of more analytical coverage, occasionally frivolous feature stories, breezier writing and zestier graphics. The company did its part by increasing the editorial budget $1.4 million, to $5.5 million. Star reporters began turning up in such far-flung places as Italy and Niagara Falls, and writing long, thoughtful pieces on migrant workers...
Penn's number one tennis player. Murray Robinson, couldn't believe--or perhaps didn't want to believe--that the Crimson's Don Pompan had reached the ball before it bounced twice. Robinson knew that with the score at 4-2 in favor of Pompan in a third-set tie-breaker he had lost his grip on a match that he had begun by taking the first...