Word: disfavor
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Solow is a leading advocate of government intervention to correct the natural imbalances of the marketplace, a strategy that has fallen into disfavor under this Administration. He won his prize for a pioneering 1956 study demonstrating that the rate of technological progress does more to determine an industrialized country's growth than the size of its labor force or its investments in new factories or equipment. Solow's "theoretical model had an enormous impact on economic analysis," said the academy's statement. In the years since then, governments around the world have taken his lesson to heart. The revolution...
With letter writing a forgotten art, diaries passe and taping in disfavor, future historians may literally be at a loss for words...
...Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even in his lifetime, Wolfe was cruelly parodied, and after his death from tuberculosis in 1938 at the age of 38, he fell into disfavor, a symbol of self-indulgence and creative excess...
...jury, must find not only that the required readings are a burden on the plaintiffs' freedom of religion but also that there is no overriding governmental interest to justify using the books. In a 1968 case, Epperson vs. Arkansas, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that it would look with disfavor on attempts by the state to cater to one particular religion. "There is and can be no doubt," the Justices said, "that the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma...
Reagan knows that sending his own troops to Nicaragua would be politically impossible so instead he buys rebels, mainly people who were deposed by the Sandinista revolution or in disfavor with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Like the condottieri of renaissance Italy, these Contras live very well off of American money. (The House voted to give the contras $30 million in economic aid when these rebels don't even have a bureacracy to distribute it. It's likely that a lot of this money will end up in hands of Miami merchants.) The United States, by hiring these mercenaries, fits very...