Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only human in the film is HAL 9000, the super-computer that runs the ship and exhibits all the emotional traits lacking in Bowman and Poole. The script development is, again, linear: the accepted relationship of man using machine is presented initially, then discarded in favor of an equal balance between the two (HAL, for example, asks Bowman to show him some sketches, then comments on them). This equilibrium where men and machine perversely share characteristics shatters only when HAL mistakenly detects a fault in the communications system. The HAL computers cannot make mistakes and a confirmation of the error...
Dean Ford said the Faculty "is certainly not going to get into anything with ethnic quotas." He said "you don't do anyone a favor" by hiring a man because of his race...
EVEN if the U.S. unexpectedly agrees to the dissolution of the Thieu government and allows the subsequent establishment of a coalition heavily weighted in favor of the NLF, several other knots must be unraveled. In short, what some Americans have long considered a simple sell-out will not be sufficient to conclude the imbroglio in Vietnam...
...this point that the experts begin to bicker. The cautious would wait for more returns before making policy. Others favor a leap into the unknown. Circumstances favor the bolder; as David Cohen points out--the Federal government has already made a massive commitment to compensatory education. And the ghettos are demanding answers. The risk of costly failures, however, remains...
...state's greatest tourist asset: its unspoiled wooded hills and valleys. Although one letter to the editor insisted that "good billboards are beautiful and break the monotony of a long motor trip," citizen mail to editors and legislators ran as much as 30-to-l in favor of the ban. Crucial to the passage the bill was the support by the host of organizations most dependent on out-of-state visitors, including the Vermont Ski Operators and the Green Mountain Motel Association. In fact, the Stowe Area Association, even before the signing of the bill, began voluntarily by removing...