Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting which broke out into pandemonium, the Undergraduate Council last night debated the morality of placing condom machines in the Houses and Yard dorms and eventually decided to put off a decision in favor of further debate...
...CHARGES of "Tomming" continue to be levelled against Blacks who propound conservative ideas. Williams, for instance, says he and the other conservatives suffer "a lot of ostracizing" by other Black academics. Indiana Law School Professor John T. Baker's last minute decision not to testify in favor of Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court also suggests that the broadening of debate Kilson senses has not come about...
...think we have a sufficient mandate tonight to get those programs done," he said after campaigning against higher taxes but in favor of a statewide lottery to increase state revenues...
Last summer Takeshita and Abe began negotiations to pool their votes on the condition that one scrap his candidacy in favor of the other. With the support of a third faction, the coalition would field a total of 231 votes. But talks bogged down. Last week three-way discussions with Miyazawa got nowhere. Meanwhile, Takeshita was well short of the 223 votes required to take the L.D.P. presidency. As party boss, the president automatically becomes Prime Minister...
...similar poll last August. At the same time, 73% of those questioned thought the U.S. actions were "likely" to result in more terrorism, and 68% thought they would result in a "military exchange" between Iran and the U.S. Despite those fears, 60% of those polled were in favor of stronger retaliatory action against Iran...