Just for starters, lawmakers should bar future governors from stocking the department with political appointees and using them to extend favors or exact retribution.
Our goal as "gracists" must be to extend favor to all who are on the margins regardless of, maybe even because of, color, class, or culture.
The charged officers, accused of extending favors, seemed to have received a favor of their own from the authorities.
The Albany County district attorney has begun a formal criminal inquiry into the dealings of a private prison company that gained millions of dollars in state work while extending favors to several state lawmakers.
This idea of God extending "favor" to people is also dangerous.
"Should we not be trying to get people out of prison?" Robin Munro, a London-based China researcher who has served as director of Human Rights Watch's Hong Kong office, says that wariness about Kamm goes back to his invoking human rights in the service of extending Most Favored Nation status.
rules require that nations extend most-favored nation status to all members.
The deal also raises a question about why Disney management did not seek to extend such favors to Talk magazine, another celebrity-heavy magazine in which Disney, through Miramax Films, is already a partner.
1962 Japan Given Trade Status LONDON — Britain today [Nov. 14] signed a six-year liberalized trade treaty with Japan under which it will extend "most-favored-nation" treatment to the Asian state.
He is honest in arguing that American troops would have to be deployed throughout the rugged and otherwise inhospitable terrain of rural Afghanistan, entering intimately into the ways of local life so as to win the hearts and minds of a people who clearly wish we would not extend the favor.
