Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smithies said that until the Dow crisis, he "wouldn't have recommended any changes" in Harvard's current policy of recruitment, which he described as basically the latter extreme position. Now he tends to favor prohibiting all recruitment on campus...
Peretz would not go so far as to favor prohibiting all recruitment from campus. "I don't find myself aesthetically opposed to recruiting," he said. "I don't think Dow should recruit here, but I have hesitations about singling them out. We must either get rational criteria or recruiting should be open...
...churchmen are enamored of the present passion for radical pronouncement. In a new book called Who Speaks for the Church? (Abingdon Press), Methodist Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
...well have been a desire to recoup their waning popular prestige by saving a prophetic teacher beloved by the masses of Jerusalem. In Cohn's reconstruction of the events, the Sanhedrin first examined witnesses not to condemn Christ but to find men who would convincingly testify in his favor before the Romans. When it could find none, the high court attempted to persuade Jesus to plead not guilty before the Romans; he refused. The buffeting that Matthew says Jesus received from Sanhedrin members was thus not punishment for blasphemy but simply the product of bitter frustration. "Jesus had refused...
...nations of the world are likely to be free of invasion and even relatively free of domestic violence." The U.S. and Russia will remain the world's only superpowers, still frozen and possibly even united in postures of armed equilibrium. Such a world will have rejected aggression in favor of economic competition -which by 2000 will have elevated Japan to the third-ranking industrial power (now fifth...