Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration count indicates that 29 Senators are either against the pact or leaning that way-just five short of the number needed to sink it. Moreover, among the 35 Senators expected to favor the treaty, at least eight are shaky. Senate supporters fume that the White House has not begun to match the lobbying effort of the opposition...
Though as a woman she had to overcome prejudice in the past, Sawhill says, "All that is over now. In fact, discrimination today is probably in my favor." A chief concern since she took office in 1977 has been how to achieve price stability with full employment. "Ideologically I'm middle-of-the-road," she says. "There is no way to solve all problems through Government intervention...
...Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bakke, a white medical student applicant who argued that minority admissions at the University of California at Davis medical school discriminated against...
...Gore rejected Bush?s plan immediately, calling it unfair to the American people. The Vice President had previously accepted both the NBC and CNN debate proposals, but were counting on the 90-minute CPD events as well. The concern, according to the Gore camp, is that debates which favor one network over the others could result in a smaller viewing audience; if "Meet the Press," for example, goes up against ABC?s hit series "NYPD Blue," ABC may not be willing to forgo its ratings - and advertising revenue - to carry an NBC-branded show...
...before his 1988 race, Al and Tipper suggested during an off-the-record lunch with leading entertainment figures that her campaign against the record industry had got out of hand, particularly when it reached hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, where Gore was a member. "I was not in favor of the hearing," Gore said, according to a transcript leaked to Daily Variety. Last year, when the administration ordered the FTC study in the wake of the Columbine High School shootings, entertainment executives were furious at the prospect of being made scapegoats. As their contributions to Gore began drying...