Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consensus reached on Saturday would be only an advisory opinion. But with the avowed wish of bringing alumnae deeper into college policy-making, Mrs. Bunting is likely to follow their sentiments; the College Fund Drive is still twenty million dollars short of its goal. If the trustees are in favor, the Radcliffe Council might then meet with the Harvard Corporation on March...
Manned Flybys. At a time when much of the scientific community is in favor of confining manned soace flight to the vicinity of the earth, Singer has grander plans. Although a manned mission past nearby planets would be physically trying, to say nothing of being more complicated and expensive than a series of unmanned probes, he feels that it could gather more scientific information. "Man can make experiments on the spot, based on what he has just observed," he says. Thus one manned flyby might well supply more information than many unmanned missions, each several years apart. Also, Singer points...
...Committee decided in favor of this limited student participation at its first meeting on February 12. By arranging for student consultants, the Fainsod committee has gone as far as possible, under its present mandate from the Faculty, toward including students in its activities...
...desperation of "Big Spender" never disappears from Charity entirely, and that is all in its favor. (Some time later, when Charity and her two cohorts sing a fiery plea for a better life on the Fan-Dango rooftop, director-choreographer Bob Fosse frames it with the "Spender" chorus line, for chilling results.) Yet some of the time--too much of the time--Charity seems hopelessly stuck in the mire of the heroine's never-never land...
...trial. And the longer the accused is free, the stronger the chance that he will be arrested again. Senator Ervin has argued that if the time between arrest and trial lasted only from six to eight weeks, there would be no clamor for preventive detention. Even those who favor the idea believe a man should be detained for only a limited time-which would mean that the courts would have to provide quicker trials anyway...