Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter the nation--veered to the right and voted overwhelmingly in support of Ronald Reagan, Cambridge went in the opposite direction: more than 78 percent of voting-age Cantabs cast a ballot for the liberal Mondale/Ferraro ticket. In fact, every single precinct in Cambridge voted in favor of the Democratic underdogs...
Unlucky on my roadtrips, I was forced to endure the fact that my roommates had no problems at all with women. My bunkmate who so graciously occupied the couch for the five nights my ex-girlfriend visited paid back the favor with hefty interest. He started to date a woman seriously in late October, and it still goes on strong after almost three years. But the price was my intimate relationship with the couch. I really didn't mind sleeping on the couch two or three times a week, but many times I would come back to my room late...
...pull-out feature of our couch. I also faced a moral dilemma everytime I needed to use the facilities. What really got to me wasn't being jacked around the room according to my roommate's sexual needs. It was the fact that I could not return the favor that made me feel small. I knew that either of these guys would sleep on the couch for months on end if I had a decent-looking excuse...
Soviet officials are letting it be known that Shevardnadze has long cultivated an unpretentious life-style of the kind that Gorbachev seems to favor. At a time when the families of other Georgian officials lived in splendid villas and drove around in limousines, Shevardnadze's wife Nanuli, a journalist, was said to take the bus to work. Although he is both admired and disliked in Georgia for his crackdown on corruption, early this year he felt confident enough of his position to authorize a newspaper poll of public reaction to his policies, a rare and unorthodox action for a Soviet...
...scepters, sacrificial knives and a multitude of other objects including an assortment of human bones, mostly of men and children. He shipped his discoveries to the Peabody Museum for safekeeping. A suit for the recovery of the objects brought by the Mexican government was not resolved in Thompson's favor until 1944. Then, when the works could be legally displayed, the Peabody had neither the room nor the funds for an exhibition. Never before seen by the public, this precious cache of Maya objects evokes some of the same sense of awe and wonder that assailed Thompson 81 years...