Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senate select committee chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) is known to favor immunity for key figures in the affair but wants to avoid contentiousness over the issue and would like to have any decision be unanimous or near unanimous...
...They're a hard-working team," Harvard forward Tim Barakett said. "They're going to try to push us off the puck. They haven't made it to the playoffs for awhile and they don't have to travel a long way [to Cambridge.] That works in their favor...
Skocpol--who had accepted a tenured post at theUniversity of Chicago after leavingHarvard--received an offer from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley soon after Harvard extendedits invitation. Skocpol told Berkeley that shewould accept a lifetime post there, but thenspurned California in favor of Cambridge...
...Hollywood version of a steady job? The star that shines can shine on; the star that burns may burn out. And any woman with a right to sing the blues has the privilege to sing a lullaby instead. O.K., divine Mrs. Von H., but do us a little favor. Sing it in public...
Although a recent poll indicates the general public seems to favor compulsory testing, especially of those in high-risk groups, experts question its wisdom. "For both sound public-health reasons and civil rights reasons, we are very much opposed to any type of mandatory testing," says Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. Experience with other diseases, he says, shows that without an effective cure for AIDS, such a policy would be useless. "Until treatment was available, mandatory testing and ((sexual)) contact tracing did nothing to stem the spread of syphilis...