Word: favor
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Unlike some of the members of his administration, Pusey was always in favor of equal opportunity for women. One summer, he decided to allow women to sing in the Memorial Church choir. On a Sunday in the fall, soprano voices were heard, and it wasn't for days that anyone realized that women were singing. "We got away with that without anyone knowing it," Pusey laughs, attributing his liberal attitude toward women to his Midwestern origins...
...opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's The Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving The Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
...itself of the stocks of companies that do business in South Africa, albeit a symbolic gesture, would signal a recognition of that responsibility. More substantive steps would be to help finance homeless shelters in the Cambridge area and to stop taking its low-income housing off the market in favor of lucrative condo conversions...
Wyzanksi's early rulings in favor of conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War drew praise from youth in the 1960s. Many of the decisions he made in Boston federal courtrooms, where he had presided since 1941, drew controversy...
Rehnquist voted alone for the right of segregated private schools to tax-exempt status, and in the 33 cases where he voted in favor of a race discrimination complainant, 31 were so clear the court was unanimous, the study said. In 14 civil rights cases where he cast the crucial vote, he went against the civil rights litigants, it contended...