Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty meeting yesterday, six people spoke in favor of the new body, and no one spoke in opposition. After the vote, in which not a single "nay" was heard, President Bok said, "I would think this was some routine correction to the minutes...
...deserves so little credit for unearthing it. It found the Iran story in a Beirut paper, while it had all but ignored Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's gallivanting around gathering arms and money for the contras. Yet after the big story broke, the press fell out of public favor, even if not as steeply as did Ronald Reagan. Dan Rather, for example, was rated high for believability by 40% of those questioned in June 1985 and by only 28% in a January Gallup poll...
...m.p.h. limit has saved as many as 26,000 lives since 1974. Democrat William Lehman of Florida cited statistics showing that the increase from 55 to 65 will cause an additional 500 to 1,000 deaths a year. Supporting the increase, contended Lehman, was "like casting a vote in favor of crashing one or two Boeing 747s every year...
...when even the Church is skeptical of miracles, it's not easy being a miracle worker. Especially if you're an atheist. Just ask nonbeliever Vie Mathews (Tom Conti), whose own divine favor--or is it just luck?--is making his life miserable...
...poll also found 42% of city residents in favor of bussing and 50% opposed, a change from a 1974 poll's figures of 29% in favor and 63% opposed to bussing...