Word: favor
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Unlike the Legal Aid Society and Voluntary Defenders--the traditional legal aid bureaus of the school--CLAO seeks to minimize its open ties with Harvard in favor of active participation in the neighborhood. Its cramped offices are located in a low-income neighborhood in East Cambridge, not in what the local poor regard as the "other Cambridge" around Harvard...
...that he may try to delay its admission. A delaying operation by even so consummate a strategist as De Gaulle can not last forever. In the long run, the British feel certain of getting in because they believe that the historic trends on the Continent are working in their favor. As they see it, the Market has no choice but to expand into a truly Europe-encompassing federation that would be at once economically stronger and politically less exclusive...
...Evaluation of Educational Achievement with the help of UNESCO, was easily the most massive comparative study of schools ever undertaken. The researchers, who included a five-man U.S. team headed by Education Professor Benjamin Bloom of the University of Chicago, carefully framed questions so that they would not favor the students of any one nation. The tests were given to 132,775 students in 5,348 schools during...
...darkly warning of the dangers of experimentation, never strayed from his roots, disdained writing for "the well-trained and elite" in favor of reaching "the simple man who can understand by direct feeling without learning music." A steady but not prolific composer, he excelled more at vocal than orchestral music, and pieces like the suite from his bright, good-humored opera Háry János became concert-hall staples. His life's output was remarkable for its uniform excellence; his unabashedly melodic First Symphony, for example, written when he was 79, evokes the same atmosphere of Transylvanian...
West Germany, which still does not recognize Ulbricht's government diplomatically, is all in favor of stepping up trade. Economics Minister Karl Schiller last month urged West German businessmen to attend the Leipzig Fair. Bonn later adopted a Schiller proposal for expanded credit guarantees to West German firms trading with East Germany. Finally, Bonn has put off for a year-until June 30, 1968-the repayment deadline for some $100 million in trade deficits already owed by East Germany...