Word: favor
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This is all speculation: the state supreme court will not hand down a ruling for at least a month, maybe two. If they rule in Baird's favor, it will be on the basis of privacy, free speech, or another of Balliro's arguments, that the statutes do not fall within the proper realm of legislation...
...most part, the Communists have been avoiding big-unit encounters, a fact that U.S. commanders, wary though they should now be of optimistic evaluations, translate into the belief that the war is going in the allies' favor. The middle part of the country, II Corps, is quiet. Communist forces have either gone into hiding, drifted further south or slipped across the Cambodian and Laotian borders. Except for a massive, six-battalion attempt by the South Vietnamese last week in Chau Doc province to take a vital Viet Cong stronghold, the fertile and populous Delta area of IV Corps...
...prefers the newspapers. "Everyone," he says, "gets his news from print." There are no Nielsen families in the Capote crowd, and he doesn't think that there is any such thing as a TV generation. "The general impression seems to be that children nowadays have abandoned print in favor of that small screen. But I think that this is untrue-numerous children of my acquaintance are great readers...
...must adopt a new "double standard" of discrimination in favor of poor nations if it is to aid, rather than plunder, underdeveloped countries, Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal said last night...
Oddsmakers (with the exception of the CRIMSON prognosticator) seem to favor Yale by at least a touchdown and a statistical breakdown bears out their predictions...