Word: favor
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...Bush Challenge: During the campaign President-elect Bush spoke in favor of Clinton's policy, and one of his key advisers gave notice that a Bush administration would be happy to escalate U.S. support for a military effort to end guerrilla control over those territories ceded by Andres Pastrana's government. But expanding U.S. involvement there may run counter to the stay-at-home instincts of the Pentagon. Expect an increasing number of articles containing the words Colombia and Vietnam...
...biggest story. WILLIAM COUPON, who has done portraits of six previous Presidents for TIME, took the cover shot of George W. Bush at the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 4, minutes after he got word of the U.S. Supreme Court's first decision in his favor. That put Bush in an upbeat mood, and Coupon found him to be a relaxed and cooperative subject, especially contrasted with some past ones. "Clinton wanted to appear a certain way and had strong ideas about how he wanted to look," says Coupon. "Bush gave the impression that...
...undercounting. They occur, for example, when a chad does not separate from the ballot card or when a mark on an optically scanned form is too faint. Manual counting in precincts that use machine voting thus increases the number of votes tabulated for both parties. Machines do not favor one candidate or the other, and the percentage of votes obtained by each party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention can be exceedingly unfair. We should avoid manual recounts or insist that they...
...Montana governor Marc Racicot for the attorney general post puts Oklahoma governor Frank Keating at the top of the list for the job. Racicot, who first came to the nation's attention during the post-election Florida recount, is far less conservative than Keating, having supported legislation in favor of gay and lesbian employment rights...
...special election, only members of the Knesset can run. That gives hope to Barak, who has a much better chance of beating the old warhorse Sharon. The short election cycle also makes it less likely that the rebellious left of Barak's Labor Party will oust him in favor of one of his critics, such as Knesset speaker Avraham Burg. "It's the only way for Barak to survive, because he knocks Netanyahu out," says Reuven Chazan, a Hebrew University political scientist. "But in the long term, he gains nothing...