Word: favor
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Vulnerable Targets. The matter will get a full airing when Johnson's request for a $12.5 billion supplemental appropriation for the Viet Nam war reaches Capitol Hill. That request is not likely to be denied, but it will spark a hot debate between those who favor increasing the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam at the expense of Great Society programs, and those who, like Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart, feel that "we have two wars on our hands, and we can't afford to lose either." As Republicans press for cuts in domestic spending, there...
...corporate worship through the liturgy-ideals that were all carried over into the life of Catholic laymen. Along with doctrine, Protestantism strongly rejected this otherworldly spirituality. Puritanism, notes Congregationalist Historian Horton Davies of Princeton, dismissed liturgy "as a lame man might a crutch when he believed himself healed," in favor of free prayer, the Bible and simplicity. Davies quotes from a 1641 Puritan attack on Anglican Prayer Book worship as the work of "mere Surplice and Service-Book men, such as cannot doe so much as a Porter in his frocke; for he doth Service, and the Priest onely sayes...
...days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...
...opened up the idea, it could get out of hand in Congress," Price said. He fears that either of the two alternatives to Johnson's proposal would leave at least half of Congress "never exposed to even the implicit threat of party discipline. I'm very much in favor of what has been proposed but very much opposed to what could happen," Price noted...
...Received" which appeared in the CRIMSON on Friday, January 7, 1966. In discussing Dean Monro's reaction to the program you write: "Very few people, he observed, now take advantage of the University's junior-year-abroad program, which he described as liberal." Though I am not particularly in favor of the sophomore exchange idea, the CRIMSON reported the plan as involving full credit for courses taken at other universities. As far as I know it is practically impossible to get credit for junior-year-abroad programs (in effect, you're taking a year off) unless you are majoring...