Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capture or kill the twelve American military advisers attached to the base. Only five were at La Union at the time, and none was injured. The guerrillas have killed five American soldiers in the past two years. In recent months the rebels have abandoned direct assaults in favor of terrorist acts, like the kidnaping last month of President Duarte's daughter. At week's end negotiations had still not been able to win her release...
...Center: Designed in 1949 by Walter Gropius and a group of fellow architects, the Graduate Center was in the forefront of the International movement in the United States. Located north of the Law School, it was greeted with great enthusiasm though in recent years it has fallen out of favor for its disregard for the Harvard atmosphere...
...GREAT DEAL of praise has already been lavished on the concerned citizens and legislators who have kindly saved 20-year olds from ruin by raising the the drinking age, and I think it's time we returned the favor...
...Star of David in support of Soviet Jews. The protester was gently but firmly hustled away. At a follow-up reception in the capital's imposing city hall, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac told Gorbachev that "French public opinion would appreciate it" if the Soviet Union made a "gesture" in favor of Jews who wished to leave the country...
...attempt. In its first four days of operation, the system cracked 34 unsolved cases. News of the computer's remarkable performance traveled quickly. One month later, NEC sold a second system to the state of Alaska, and eight months after that, California decided to scrap its existing system in favor of one built...