Word: favor
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...They've never voted on an issue regarding theUniversity," said Jonathan Martin '88, who wasrecently elected co-chairman of the Endowment forDivestiture. "I wonder what would happen if [avote in favor of divestment] did pass. It willprovoke a challenge to the Corporation which hasnever been challenged before...
Advocates for the disabled, including Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., assembled last night at the Kennedy School to promote awareness of disability issues and to advocate public policy changes in favor of civil rights for the handicapped...
McGanney makes two points. She argues that the conservative elite has a "strategy" to keep the Ex in the hands of directors who "enjoy its 'favor'." Second, she laments that the Ex no longer produces "off-the-wall things that don't get put up in the houses." Let us first consider the plays that earn Ex slots...
...HRDC's "strategy". Elite, favor, elect: these words run through McGanney's article. Yet how does she know who is in my "favor"? Has she, over our lunch meetings, looked deep into my soul and seen to its finest detail the bias I wield over my intellect? Does she know which directors have worked during my tenure, and my relationship with them? She uses fighting words, and she had best have strong proof to back them...
Although he would like to see Afghanistan and other instances of Soviet political aggression discussed at the talks, Pipes said Gorbachev will probably "brush these things aside" in favor of his own preferred agenda...