Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the peace plan, both the South Africans and SWAPO would have to release all their Namibian political prisoners. South Africa has been holding about 400 nationalists in its jails, and some 700 SWAPO dissidents, held by Tanzania and Zambia as a favor to Nujoma, have recently been set free. In both groups, there are men who pose serious threats to the inarticulate and unpredictable Nujoma, 49, who has failed to excite either Western or African leaders. Among them: Andreas Shipanga, a former SWAPO Information Officer released from a Tanzanian prison, who formed the SWAPO Democrats in opposition to Nujoma...
...some direct influence in pointing the way to a resolution of the Rhodesian crisis. "The situation is just about as good as could be expected," a State Department specialist remarked last week. "In fact, we've made more progress than we thought possible 15 months ago." Those who favor an end to the strife in Namibia were hoping that progress would continue...
This is supremely important because, even if the growth in air travel levels out to 6% a year, U.S. lines will need to borrow $56 billion by 1985 to replace their aging jets. Lenders will tend to favor the lines that stand to benefit the most from deregulation, meaning the bigger, richer carriers. Though the U.S. certainly needs more competition and fare flexibility in the air, the specter of unbridled price cutting and route grabbing frightens many financial experts, who fear that some lines will not be able to earn the returns needed to justify large loans. One airline financial...
European airline leaders, who generally favor controlled competition, have serious quarrels with Carter's approach. Their objections would be more telling if they had done a better job of opening up air travel to the broad public. European fares are still twice as high as those in the U.S.; and promotional cheapies are few. Rather than compete for passengers, the European airlines band together in "pools," or market-sharing arrangements. On the Paris-London run, for example, Air France and British Airways schedule their flights at different times to avoid competition as well as costly excess capacity...
Even impersonal names stir improbable emotions. Phone clients have continued to howl as Ma Bell has systematically abolished exchange names (Butterfield, Murray Hill) in favor of numbers. When a disease got named for their organization, some American Legionnaires protested as though fearing voodoo-like contamination. Real estate developers act as if they expect fanciful street names to impart class to entire neighborhoods. But should it be assumed that only classical music is played on Symphony Circle in Vienna...