Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rule--"What's an Oktoberfest without beer?," she said. Added a vendor from Tacos El Bruce, "Business is lousy. People aren't drinking and eating because there's no booze." On the other hand, the vendors of arts, crafts, and other non-food items were overwhelmingly in favor of the new policy. Sona Belle, who sold Balinese jewelry at the fair, recalls: "[Last year] it got seedy toward the end. We were right next to a paddy wagon, and police were handcuffing a youth; it was kind of violent." Asked how business was going, she commented, "It's basically...
Falwell faltered a bit and talked about "growing in sensitivity" during the seven years since he explained the nature of God's favor for his chosen people to a group of anti-Semites on the steps of the Mississippi State House...
...addition, Graham's analysis ignores the importance calls for divestment have in raising the issue of student participation in the decision-making structure of the University. Though polls show a significant majority of students favor divestment, Harvard continues to invest in the brutal apartheid system...
Harvard has been intransigent with the patrolmen before. When the union filed a grievance last year about the restriction of an officer's duties, the University did not respond until forced into binding arbitration. The federal arbitrator declared that the union's grievance was reasonable and found in its favor...
...senior department members who said they supported Brinkley's bid called him a leading representative of more specialized and quantitative view of American history that is coming to dominate the field. Brinkley won his department's endorsement in a vote one member termed "minorly in his favor," several said...