Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese bond issues and state aid for the city--has, the Manhattan observers try to assure themselves, finally tilted in their favor...
Death on the Nile, by this standard, is a good Christie movie. The film opens on the lush greens and browns of the sprawling English country estate of Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles), who agrees to do best friend Jackie (Mia Farrow) a favor by hiring her fiance as groundskeeper. Fiance (Simon MacCarkindale)--Cambridge-educated, handsome, but broke--shows up, and he and Linnet engage in heavy eye contact. Soon it's wedding bells, but not not Mia, who devotes herself to pursuing the lovebirds around the world and ruining their honeymoon. She pops up on top of a pyramid...
Bowdoin turned the flow of play in their favor after Hart's goal, pulling all their players into the Harvard end and swarming around Crimson goalie Barbara Mahon...
BOSTON--Howard Jarvis, author of California's Proposition 13, endorsed Democrat Edward J. King for governor last night, citing King's stand in favor of similar tax rollbacks in Massachusetts...
...community parade up Fifth Avenue and turn Central Park into a joyous 840-acre cookout. It is then that Puerto Rican exuberance blossoms. Hotels and nightclubs rock to the three-two rhythms of salsa. Hot dog vendors watch forlornly as their all-American offerings are spurned in favor of bacalaitos (codfish fritters), alcapurrias (plantain-meat rolls) and tostones (fried plantains). The community comes ablaze - forgetting for a while the gritty realities of its plight...