Word: favored
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...time has come for us all to put ourselves on the line morally. If you favor using war to oust the Iraqis, fine; the nice people at the armed forces recruitment station will be happy to take your enlistment papers. If you're willing to sacrifice someone else's life, you should be willing to make the same sacrifice...
...that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that the framers deliberately rejected any scheme that would give the Chief Executive the power to make the basic decision in favor...
Significantly, Webster said that if military force did eventually become necessary, the passage of time would favor the anti-Saddam alliance because Iraq's war machine would have deteriorated so badly. That view contrasted sharply with the one put before the same House committee two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. He told the panel that delay would only give the Iraqi military more opportunity to strengthen its defenses in Kuwait and southern Iraq. Webster had other concerns about the effect of delays, however. During closed-door sessions of the House hearings, he reportedly told the committee...
...performance is any indication, Gorbachev may be swinging to the right only to lull conservatives into complacency before swinging back toward the middle. TASS political analyst Andrei Orlov explained Gorbachev's recent behavior as "a carefully hatched multistep maneuver aimed at changing the alignment of political forces in ((his)) favor...
There are ethnic studies organizations here--Asian-American studies, Latino studies, Afro-American studies--and I have some contact with each of them and have not encountered a McCarthyite-type mindset among them. Nor am I aware of any such unacceptable posture among women's groups here that favor women's studies...