Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half started slowly. For several minutes the Jeffs fought gallantly to get back into the game. Again it was the Crimson fullbacks, particularly vet rans Langton and John Sanacore, who turned the momentum back in Harvard's favor with tenacious defense and sharp, counter-attacking passes...
...freedom of movement for all and total safety," contends James Gannett, a senior engineer test pilot for Boeing. "You've got to put the big guys in one place and the little guys in another." Most airline pilots, unwilling to bully their lesser brothers, are not necessarily in favor of an outright ban, but they do want the private pilots to pay a higher admission price, in the form of better equipment and training, for the use of congested major fields. "It's not that we want to exclude them from airspace," says United Airlines Captain Bay Lahr...
...agreement that is finally worked out will face strong opposition in the U.S. Senate. Though some 40 Senators are believed generally in favor of a new strategic arms pact along the lines that currently seem possible, at least 20 are believed resolutely against it. This raises the ominous possibility of rejection of a treaty by Congress. California's Senator Alan Cranston has gone so far as to say that failure by Congress to ratify a good agreement by the necessary two-thirds majority would be "catastrophic." SALT's foes, led by Senator Henry Jackson, contend, on the other...
...tour of the Middle East last week, urging the rejection of the Camp David agreements. Assad's hostility was predictable. More worrisome to the Egyptian President was the fact that his moderate allies, particularly the Saudi Arabian royal family, had so far said little or nothing in his favor. Sadat last week sent his closest confidant, Deputy Prime Minister Hassan Tuhamy, to Geneva to call on King Khalid; the Saudi monarch was resting there on a flight from Riyadh to Cleveland, where he was to undergo heart surgery. Tuhamy reported back to Cairo with the ambiguous message that Khalid...
...trade as a policy tool has led to sharp combat within the Administration between those who favor it (led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) and those who are strongly opposed (led by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps). Carter seems to be leaning in some respects toward the Kreps side: he has now decreed that the U.S. should sell products to an unsavory customer if the customer could buy them somewhere else...