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Word: favor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those two Lion tallies, coming four minutes apart in the middle of the second half, knotted the score, and with the game's momentum clearly in Columbia's favor, it seemed only a matter of time before the Lions struck again...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men Booters Slip-Slide Past Columbia, 3-2 | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Annual trips between New Haven and Cambridge, replete with tailgate parties, alumni and countless shakers of martinis, are now an integral part of the Harvard-Yale match-up--a series which presently stands at 56-39-8 in favor of the Elis...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: Once Upon a Time, Harvard Was a National Powerhouse | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...congressional committee counsel M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: While You Were Away | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Bennett insists that one source of popular dismay is precisely the belief that the public is not getting its money's worth out of the cash already being showered on schools -- a record $308 billion this year in federal, state, local and private spending. To improve teaching, G.O.P. candidates favor a free-market approach: tuition tax credits and/or education vouchers for parents to send children to public or even private schools of their choice. The theory is that in a buyers' market, schools would be forced to improve to compete for pupils. At present, says former Delaware Governor du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Issues Testing Ideas on Education | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...counsel Consuela M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: While You Were Away | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

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