Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the Harvard Eight returned the favor, pulling past the finish just half-a-second ahead of their Rhode Island rivals...
William Johnson, Cabot House. What makes a man a man? Just ask pre-med William Johnson. "There is no greater thrill," says Johnson, "than to defeat your enemy, to have your way with his wife and daughters, and take his property." Eschewing public service in favor of ruthless empire-building, Johnson sweeps down from the Quad on his tough Mongolian Steppe pony every day to attend biology and chemistry classes...
...powerful argument in its favor--greed. Each Senator, regardless of party principles, contemplated the healthy re-election margin that an electorate well-greased with Federal funding would produce. Every part of the country needed jobs and contracts. Some even needed highways. The bill was a good example of pleasing most of the people most of the time...
...wasn't over. Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, known as a specialist in parliamentary technique, changed his vote to favor the override so that Senate rules would permit him to move that the vote be reconsidered. He then managed to postpone a vote on this motion by further maneuvering, in order to buy time for pressuring Sanford...
Three tense hours later, Sanford emerged onto the Senate floor from a session with his party's leaders. Claiming that the President had already been vindicated by winning the first vote, he promised to favor the override in the next vote. The next vote, however, was not a sure...