Word: favor
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Last spring, Ellertson and Kate Freeman '87circulated a petition calling for mandatoryworkshops on date rape to be held in all freshmandorms during freshman week. The students gatheredabout 1000 signatures in favor of the proposal...
...This game will serve us very, very well," Harvard Coach Joe Restic said after seeing his team turn the ball over 11 times. "Eventually, this game will be a factor in our favor, and I'm not talking about Holy Cross next year. I mean before this season is over...
Stan Lundine is also Cuomo's man. A candidate for lieutenant governor, Congressman Lundine voted in favor of the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget act. Lundine is also boring. Lundine is also no threat to Cuomo...
...provide evidence against their former partners. Racket victims are less fearful than before of testifying. Nationwide, says Giuliani, "we've got more than 100 people who have testified against Mafia guys." To be sure, many witnesses are criminals facing long sentences; they have a strong self-interest in currying favor with prosecutors...
Indeed, they seemed to be. Some five hours later the House of Representatives voted, 203 to 197, in favor of $200 million in emergency aid to her fledgling government. The vote, admitted Democrat Gerald Kleczka of Wisconsin, amounted to "legislating with our hearts instead of our heads." Indeed, the measure only added to a foreign-aid budget that is already likely to be deeply slashed by the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing mechanism. The bill is unlikely to pass the Senate...