Word: favor
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...another issue, the city's rent control advocates see Harvard's preferential sales of property to faculty members as a means of displacing local residents in favor of professors. University officials have admitted that their property sales to Harvard faculty members are not designed solely to help poor professors find housing in this tight housing market; they're also out to make a fast buck on buildings sometimes valued at $400,000. In the process, they're displacing longterm tenants of these buildings who were once protected under rent control...
...breakfast. In the late 1940s, he, Astronomer Fred Hoyle and Mathematician Hermann Bondi roiled the cosmological community when they countered an early version of the big-bang theory of the universe with their steady state model, which stipulated the continual creation of matter (a concept now completely out of favor). In 1968 Gold was the first to propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right). In the mid-1960s he sparked another ruckus by predicting that the first spacecraft to land on the moon could encounter a mile-thick layer of dust that...
...clear, as critics have claimed, that this sort of theology is tied to other Fundamentalist ideas on geopolitics. However, the Fundamentalists are fiercely anti-Communist and, for that reason, support a strong military and favor U.S. involvement in the affairs of other nations if it can be justified as opposition to Communist encroachment. Fear of pro-Soviet radicals is the basic reason Falwell would risk opprobrium to support South Africa's present regime. Unlike many other American religious groups, Fundamentalists typically favor an extensive U.S. nuclear arsenal...
...trend is not for everyone. Sears and J.C. Penney may not benefit because their readership is too broad. Brand-name advertisers favor upscale catalogs, like Bloomingdale's, which reach large but narrowly defined consumer groups. The majority of Bloomingdale's 1.7 million readers this fall are under 45, with some college education, employed and affluent. But access to such a demographic bull's-eye is expensive. A page sells for $27,000, about the same amount that Vogue charges for a similar space. Bloomingdale's is more demanding than the fashion magazines, requiring that the color, copy and image...
Once written, even the best script may die for a variety of reasons. Material developed for a star like Dustin Hoffman will be dead if the bankable name is not interested. Heads of studios change, and so do Hollywood fashions. Current trends favor movies about teens in turmoil and Clint Eastwood films without Clint Eastwood (Code of Silence, Witness). Writers who are fashioning clones of these movies may finish just in time to see their work outmoded by a new trend. "It's like a slot machine," observes Writer Howard Franklin. "You can have done your job well...