Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the interest in education and helping others, 73 percent of the first-year students were opposed to the idea of requiring one year of volunteer service after graduation, while 17 percent were in favor...
...late June. Near the top of the tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument down. No way. I am keeping the faith. Eventually, Zhao will be vindicated. There's no turning back over the long run. The emperors in Beijing won't change the label. They'll still call China Communist. They'll have to do that...
...matter why Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution, what is most interesting today is that the Chairman's successors appear totally uninterested in the question. For the party's present leaders, so expert at rewriting history that they regularly crop from official photographs whoever is currently out of favor, it has been enough to blame a few scapegoats for a decade of chaos and leave it at that...
Advertisers favor O'Neill for his familiar face and grandfatherly voice. The pay is handsome: for a day's work he gets $100,000, equivalent to his annual salary as Speaker. Says he: "I always said I'd never be a lobbyist, and lo and behold, a new career fell upon me." Next on his agenda: ads for the Trump Shuttle...
Survey courses like History 1a and its spring counterpart History 1b, were once a staple of college curriculums but fell out of favor in the late 1960s. In recent years however, many educators have criticized American college for failing to ensure that students learn the basics of Western civilization...