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...reason is external. Courts and voters have expressed their disfavor with affirmative action. Another reason is that the applicant pool is very diverse and very qualified. The College might be able to disregard ethnicity since its pool is so diverse...
Another cause is foods like onions or garlic, in which case you're out of luck: essential oils from such foods get into the blood, then into the lungs, then out with each exhaled breath. Even in the 21st century, if you want the flavor, you risk disfavor...
...almost at once. Though Mao's guerrilla strategy was in strong disfavor with the Moscow-influenced "internationalists" at Communist Party headquarters in Shanghai, Deng, who had become exasperated with Soviet-style conventional warfare, was convinced that Mao's tactics were right. From 1931 to 1935, as the two worked to establish a Red Army base in the south-central province of Jiangxi, a mutual affection ripened that was almost brotherly. When Mao was denounced and demoted by pro-Russian elements of the party as an "escapist" for advocating a hit-and-run campaign of attrition, Deng was ousted along with...
During the '70s, when a certain amount of marijuana burnout from the '60s became evident, pot fell into relative disfavor. But in the past decade, media stories registering disapproval of marijuana have tapered off. It has hardly discredited the substance that Head Boomer Bill Clinton, after stating four years ago that he hadn't inhaled, told an MTV audience that he wishes he could have done so. The President's sneaking snickering line (a kid still putting one over on his parents) suggested the boomers' ambivalence about pot and a kind of time-warping refusal to see it or themselves...
...cause in disfavor, Hamas during the past year has become embroiled in debate over whether to suspend military operations and focus on taking a share of the power now available under self-rule. Hamas has always been principally a political organization, delivering medical, educational, religious and welfare services to the public. The notion was to await a better day to destroy Israel and meanwhile participate in the game. Then Israel killed Ayyash by planting a bomb in his mobile telephone. That gave the hard-liners what they saw as justification to act. They were moved not only by vengeful anger...