Word: favor
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Botha stated quite succinctly that the whites are interested only in their own survival as a separate race and culture in South Africa. Even in this time of intense international pressure for reform, he eschewed fundamental precepts of liberty and equality in favor of the continued predominance of the white population...
...Saudis for their unwillingness to make peace with Israel and for subsidizing "terrorists," meaning Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Though he acknowledged that Washington and Riyadh have some mutual interests, Cranston argued, "The Saudi princes don't pump oil or resist Marxism just to do us a favor. They'd do it anyway...
Directly Son said he would favor his visitors with a song or two but that he had to save himself because he was due in New York City next day to play at the Washington Square Church, 135 West 4th Street. He said when he is in New York, he likes to slip out on the street and play a tune or two because you can pick up cash quickly that way. Then he got his guitar, an expensive Martin, and after making sure there were no women in earshot, he swung into Catfish Blues, a song so lowdown nasty...
...many other afternoon dailies, the News American had suffered declining circulation for decades, from a peak of more than 200,000 in 1959 to some 100,000 this year. Many of its blue-collar readers were leaving Baltimore for the suburbs, while others were skipping the afternoon paper in favor of the evening television newscasts. Unprofitable for several years, the paper was losing an estimated $800,000 to $1 million a month at the end. When Hearst tried to sell it, most prospective buyers were interested only in the land under the paper's plant, which overlooks Baltimore's popular...
...divestment. That is why we support the move of several alumni to include the issue on the agenda of the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association, which is this afternoon. When the meeting is called to order by the association president all those who support openess, whether they favor divestment or not should shout "open the doors," thereby letting Harvard's officials and the watching world know that we will no longer let the University be run by a closed administration...