Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mather's weekly newspaper. The ConcreteAbstract, devoted eight pages to statements on theissue, and students voted 176-52 in favor ofinstalling the machines, she said...
...most recent additions mean that the residents of Adams, Cabot, Dunster, Eliot, Leverett, Lowell, Mather and North have all approved the move, either at house committee meetings or in house-wide referendums. Freshmen also voted in favor of installing the machines at a special meeting organized by the Freshman Council...
Greider documents the fact that the Federal Reserve usually pursues tight- money policies that favor the interests of rather than borrowers. He holds the Fed responsible for virtually every recession that has occurred in its 74 years of existence. Like many economists, Greider argues that the governors were to blame for the severity of the Great Depression of the 1930s...
...seasons there hasn't been much experimenting in the Ex. It looks as if the theater's name has become part of a strategy to preserve one of the University's finest theater spaces for the productions--adventurous or not--of whatever undergraduate directors happen to enjoy the favor of Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club leaders. "Experimental Theater", remember, carries the suggestion that the goings on inside are so sophisticated that only an elect are in a position to judge and appreciate...
...also houses a collection for which many of the great museums of the world would give their proverbial eye teeth. At present several of the Fogg's outstanding collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings are on display, including a super group of recently restored Rossettis. For those who favor pouting, melancholy women, this should be just the thing, especially as they are displayed alongside detailed descriptions of how they were painted and--a cheering thought for all would-be artists--how often Rossetti had to repaint them...