Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than the Panama Canal treaties. If we had to take up SALT today, it probably wouldn't make it." Cranston notes that even advocates of arms control are reserving judgment on SALT II until they see the final shape of the accord. He estimates that roughly 40 Senators favor the prospective arms limitation pact and an equal number are undecided, while a hard core of 20 are opposed. It takes only 34 votes to block approval. Cranston feels, however, that with a good treaty, "the battle for SALT is winnable given the time to prepare...
...emergence to compare with Napoleon's journey out of Elban exile to try to regain France. Nor was it precisely the great soap opera of redemption that occurred in the mid-'50s when the American people decided that Ingrid Bergman, disgraced adulteress, might be restored to favor. But somewhere in the historic procession from the majestic to the trivial, one might plausibly place Richard Nixon's trip to Hyden, Ky., over the Fourth of July weekend...
Brunei fears that Malaysia might be tempted to make a play for such wealth. Thus the present sultan and his father, Omar Ali Saifuddin, who abdicated in 1967 in favor of his son but remains a power behind the throne, have steadfastly insisted that the British stay...
...court's tendency to grope for a middle way was clearly revealed in its criminal decisions this year. In contrast to the earlier years of the Burger Court, the Justices last term ruled more often in favor of defendants than of prosecutors. Last week the court ruled that juries must be allowed to weigh almost limitless mitigating circumstances, which may force many states to write more lenient death-penalty statutes. They also protected the accused's right to counsel and jury trial in two decisions, and in another refused to permit a "murder scene" exception to requiring search...
...down the facade of the old building and partly encasing the terminal in a 53-story glass-and-steel box. When the city rejected both designs, Penn Central went to court, claiming that its property rights had been violated. Although the trial court ruled in the railroad's favor, the appeals court reversed the decision in 1975 and the case ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court...