Word: favor
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...Thomas Kuhn, whose publication in 1962 of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions offered a fresh way of analyzing the history of scientific discovery. Cohen accepts the essential tenets of Kuhn's revolutionary treatise. Like Kuhn, Cohen rejects the evolutionary or cumulative explanation of the turnover of scientific knowledge in favor of the theory that scientific changes are unpredictable, profound intellectual developments that completely modify the way people think about an area of inquiry...
...racecourse was shortened from 2000 to 1750 meters because of a dam problem near the official start. This switch proved to favor the heavies as they improved their times against the first and second-place Eastern Sprints finishers, Princeton and Wisconsin...
...recession and rebound rapidly. Said Board Member Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy Administration: "The Fed is riding to the rescue." Agreed Alan Greenspan, who served as chief economic adviser to President Ford: "The odds definitely favor a quickening of the economy...
Many of the exceptions made so far favor wealthy individuals or businesses; ordinary taxpayers will have to make up the difference. To keep the tax plan "revenue neutral" -- neither adding to nor subtracting from present tax intake -- the Administration will almost certainly have to scale down its initial proposal in Treasury I to double immediately the personal exemption from $1,040 to $2,000. White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who as Treasury Secretary drafted the original reform plan, says the past few days of work on Treasury II have been "a great balancing act to keep it revenue...
Craxi's coalition won a decisive vote of confidence, with a total of more than 58%. The biggest winner was the Christian Democratic Party, which bested the Communists, 35% to 30.2%. What may have worked in the Christian Democrats' favor was a heavy turnout of 44.5 million, or 89% of eligible voters. Had the Communists repeated their earlier sorpasso, or overtaking, of the Christian Democrats, they could have pushed the Craxi coalition to the brink of collapse and possibly positioned themselves for an even more critical defeat of the government by calling for early parliamentary elections, which...