Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...redevelopment agency brought an ailing business district back to health with some strategic investments; the completion of the freeway in 1976 spurred further growth. Housing prices began to climb. Average worth of Monrovian homes: $50,000. Increases in assessments last year: up to 100%. Vote in favor of Proposition 13: a whopping...
...would be a different winner: Gerald Ford by a solid margin. That is the finding of a survey of 1,020 registered voters completed last week by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Of the Democrats, Republicans and independents who were queried by phone, 45% favor Ford, 37% say they would vote for Carter and 18% are undecided. A surprising 28% of the Democrats say they would now vote for Ford; 17% are not sure. Further, Carter has lost the independent vote by 2 to 1 and is even edged out by Ford in the South...
...dovish for much of the electorate. Only a minority of those who expressed an opinion (44%) think he has been effective in dealing with the Russians. Responding to a related question, 48% find his policies too soft, 1% too hard, 36% just about right. More than half (53%) favor helping African countries threatened with rebellions aided by Russians or Cubans; 28% are opposed, and 19% uncertain...
Carter's decisions to cancel the B-l bomber and shelve the neutron bomb were decisively rejected in the survey. A startling 56% of the respondents feel that any treaty with the Russians limiting nuclear weapons would be too risky. Only 32% favor a new SALT agreement. Although Carter counts the Panama Canal treaty a distinct success, the voters who were polled feel otherwise. By 50% to 33%, they consider it a mistake...
...when the red and green lights flashed the vote on two big electronic scoreboards in the chamber, ERA backers were shocked. The tally was 101 to 64 in favor, six short of the three-fifths majority needed for passage...