1. Both measures are favored by business. 2. Both said during their campaigns that they favored a balanced budget amendment, but they never said they favored the measure now being offered by the Republicans. 3. -- A Los Angeles Times poll published Saturday found that most Americans favor tougher measures to prevent terrorist attacks, even if they entail eroding some civil liberties. 4. A bipartisan majority appears to favor the measure, but Western Republicans have indicated that they may try to derail it on property-rights grounds. 5. A large majority of lawmakers had been known to favor the measure. 6. According to recent polls, Californians favor this measure, as well they should. 7. After all, a solid majority of California voters has favored measures hostile to multiculturalism. 8. All the Democrats on the committee favor a measure that would prevent companies from taking advantage of these havens. 9. Business groups favor measures like a reduction in the capital gains tax. 10. But in communist Cuba it favors unilateral measures that punish an entire people, alienate old friends and discourage privatization. |