Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally tricky is the effect of the pollster's questions. A vaguely worded or blatantly biased question can alter the results by 10% to 40%. A sound question gives the respondent a real choice: "Do you favor or oppose President Johnson's bombing pause...
...bureau guesses, despite the wave of protests against him, that there might be enough conservative Frenchmen to give him a fifty-fifty chance. The unanswerable question is how the mood of France will develop in the next few weeks. The passage of time may work in De Gaulle's favor; the general strike can hardly continue for three more weeks until the referendum. If a semblance of order returns, so may the basic realization that however the Gaullist regime has failed France, no other government in the visible future is likely to do much better...
...week's end the state senate agreed to a modest and largely meaningless proposal, allowing Mayor Lindsay to appoint four new members to the nine-man board of education-the four being in favor of decentralization. The board was then enjoined to produce a new plan for consideration by the legislature next year...
...prose is everywhere murkier than usual this year, though one idea for a piece was remarkably sensible: the chronology of the year was scrapped in favor of an essay on the war and Harvard. But the traditional collection of undergraduate writing succumbed to a deathly five-essay section on why-I'm-a-work (-jock,-do-gooder, -singer, and -black militant, respectively...
COLES: I am in favor--I want to emphasize this--of a large measure of the social and economic analysis of America that the student radicals have made. But I suppose my loyalties as a person and as a worker are with the immediate lives of the people that I work with, and in that sense I suppose I am not ideological. I want the police to protect these families from fires, from sniping, and I want the children that I know in Roxbury not to be killed by a burning building or by bullets...