Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...redistribution of Simmons' vote left St. George more than 300 votes behind Davis, which he said was unexpected. Davis said she thought the transfer in her favor reflected the women's vote of Cambridge...
...Attorney General's investigation began in May 1986 after four members of Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA), which sponsored a three-person petition slate for the Board, alleged that the University unfairly biased the election in favor of its own 10-person official slate of candidates. It was the first time in close to two decades that non-official candidates had run for one of the five spots that open up on the 30-member body annually...
Tribe also represented Pennzoil in its $10billion case against Texaco, arguing part of thecase in front of the Supreme Court, which decidedin favor of Pennzoil in April. Other parts of thecase continued to be negotiated through the summerand fall...
...Frank (Tim Reid) is courted by a high-class black men's club, which practices its own form of race discrimination. Prospective members are traditionally given a "paper bag" test: only those with skin lighter than the bag are asked to join. The messages are soft-pedaled, however, in favor of funky atmosphere, fragments of offhand humor and characters refreshingly free of sitcom shtick. No big laughs, but not Big Band either...
...week against major trading currencies. At one point the dollar traded in New York at 137.20 yen, a 40-year low, and 1.721 West German marks, the lowest in seven years. The drop apparently represented a Reagan Administration plan to abandon its policy of holding the currency steady in favor of allowing it to enter a managed decline. Many economists believe the dollar must fall 10% or more to help ease the U.S. trade deficit by making American goods more competitively priced...