Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge that students vote for alternative A in Part I, which would retain RGA, that they vote in favor of Part II, to establish a Joint Committee, and that they vote against Part III, which asks for student representation on the College Council...
...decided to reassert his government's authority by ordering a resumption of patrols by Greek Cypriot police in two predominantly Turkish villages about 30 miles south of Nicosia. Unfortunately, the direction of the operation was entrusted to the wrong man: Lieut. General George Grivas. While Makarios seems to favor an independent Cyprus with friendly relations with Greece, Grivas, the island's most fearsome hawk, still holds out for enosis (union) with the mainland and has no patience with the Turkish Cypriots, who want their own self-ruled ethnic cantons...
...improve medical care is to have the patient pay for it in advance and to have the doctors who provide it practice in groups, said the Wilbur Committee's report in 1932. This year's commission, though favoring prepayment, gives no such strong endorsement to group practice. Joseph A. Beirne, president of the Communications Workers of America, argued in vain that the commission should have taken a forthright stand in favor of pre-paid group-practice plans, in the light of "compelling evidence" that they bring about the most economical delivery of medical services. Even without that, the commission gave...
...time factor worked in Andrews' favor. The University, afraid of slowing design and thus construction, allowed him a relatively free hand in the design...
Mackey, who chairs a special three-man committee of the American Mathematical Society which is attempting to get the effort-reporting requirement "romoved or changed," according to Mackey, is alone no longer. Very few people in the scientific community here are in favor of effort-reporting. At the very best it is considered to be a necessary evil...