Word: favor
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...continues because of Iran's failure, so far, to achieve two other goals. It has not successfully made a decisive military breakthrough to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Nor has it been able to incite the Iraqi Shia population to an open rebellion in favor of Khomeini's version of an Islamic regime...
Independent Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, whodescribes himself as "an occasional smoker," toldthe Cambridge Chronicle yesterday that he alsowill vote for the ordinance. Before a hearing heldtwo weeks ago on the subject, Danehy said he waslikely to favor the proposal, although hequestions its constitutionality...
Nearly two of every three people surveyed favor the instant replay rule being used this season in the NFL, according to a poll conducted by USA Today...
...essays prove that to be a New Deal liberal for four decades requires not only stamina but lots of irony -- and plenty of fast footwork. He remains enduringly hopeful, not least of all about the revival of liberalism, which, according to his schedule, is due to cycle back in favor around 1990. But he also finds it part of his nature to question everything, including his hopes. In his best essay, Schlesinger writes of the "precariousness" of the American experiment in the eyes of the Founding Fathers, and his own. It was only later, he notes, that Americans began...
...closing, the only thing which can be said in favor of the Faculty vote is that Women's Studies is a problem which will take care of itself. There will be some interest in the first few years, but soon enough interest in the field will drop off dramatically as serious students realize they are better off in a more legitimate field. The radical feminist movement, having accomplished its goal of establishing Women's Studies at Harvard, will move on to the next issue...