Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lions roughed up Harvard pitcher Kevin Curtin (now 2-2) for three singles and two runs in the first inning, forcing Nahigian to remove his starter in favor of reliever Greg Ubert...
...Moreover, breath tests favor the subjects tested by consistently underestimating an individual's true blood alcohol content," he said...
...most successful fast would see every dining hall employee getting paid for doing no work, every student painting the town--and starving folk in Africa and elsewhere getting far less than if we avoided the pretense of Oxfam night altogether. So do a starving family in Africa a favor. Skip the Oxfam fast...
...says Harvard Law Professor Abram Chayes, the Aquino government must take care to "give him as much opportunity as possible to present his case." For instance, says Chayes, it might consider appointing a neutral tribunal of lawyers or judges to take testimony from Marcos in Hawaii. In Manila's favor is the fact that federal courts usually defer to presidential policy in cases touching upon foreign affairs. In the government papers thus far filed in Marcos legal matters, the White House has indicated a pro-Aquino tilt...
...usually worked himself back into favor. Dylan was, after all, increasingly famous and boisterously charming. He could play the convivial clown entertaining the chaps at the pub, and the naughty boy whom women fought one another to comfort and reform. He encouraged such ministrations but certainly had no intentions of being changed. The poet chose for his bride Caitlin Macnamara, an Irish woman as flighty and flamboyant as himself, and promised her before their wedding, "You'll never, I'll never let you, grow wise, and I'll never, you shall never let me, grow wise, and we'll always...