Word: disfavor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard is supposed to be a place where conflicting ideas are introduced and debated through serious intellectual discussion. Avoiding influential ideas is doing the students and society a great disfavor. Future leaders will emerge from this institution; they should be versed in the ideas that affect people in society...
...pool. The pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate will disfavor their client. Then the trial begins, when jurors face complicated testimony and evidence that judges and lawyers do little to help them understand...
Carlos bounced around to Yemen and Jordan, falling deeper into disfavor. Somewhere along the way he lost his wife and child. "The marriage was a mistake," says an Arab friend. "He never trusted women." That same friend says, "He didn't trust the governments he worked for. This is why he was often depressed." It also explains why Carlos always carried a Russian pistol and never slept two nights in the same place...
...Council has suddenly found it necessary to buy a large ad whose only purpose is to exhort students to come to meetings and compete with elected members for speaking time. Guests can't vote at the meetings, after all. Could it be that the Council has fallen into disfavor? Is this part of the Re-evaluation Committee's strategy to gain acceptance...
Astrology fell into disfavor beginning in the 15th century, he says, but pockets of belief existed even with the rise of astronomy. The famous astronomist Johannes Kepler, for instance, was a convinced astrologer...