Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bok will testify next Thursday in favor of legislation that would impose economic sanctions on the white minority-ruled regime of South Africa...
...students who took part taken full advantage of these rights, straining the patience of those who do not favor divestiture, by handing out leaflets, holding rallies, shouting through megaphones, setting up tables at all the Houses to gather signatures, occupying Harvard buildings and now assaulting foreign diplomats invited by other student organizations. If they wish to have their rights protected to hold peaceful assembly, they should have the decency to recognize that not everybody agrees with their position and that others have the right to engage in similar yet opposed activities. I suspect, however, that most of those students involved...
...discussion to include apathy on "national issues," however, I must take issue with his examples. He does not play fairly by comparing us unfavorably with Yale students who honored employees' picket lines last year: there has been no strike here, so no basis for comparison exists. Protest in favor of fraternities at Amherst and Colby support self-interest, nor "national issues." And the suicidal flavor of the Brown students' symbolic statement is their campaign for cyanide pills makes it is position morally repugnant to me, and Mr. Rosenthal has no right to fault me the rest of the Harvard community...
Nonetheless, the evidence in favor of an impact was rapidly accumulating. Other geologists uncovered similar iridium deposits just above Cretaceous rock beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and under the Raton basin in northeastern New Mexico. Additional analysis showed that the samples contained ratios of gold and platinum nearly identical to those found in meteorites. Furthermore, other sediment layers containing abnormally high amounts of iridium were discovered under both the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico; these layers were deposited around the time of a smaller mass extinction that occurred more than 30 million years...
...longer its old reliable. Many industry watchers last week were mystified, for example, as to why Coke would boost the calories of its old Coke by five, to 77 per 6-oz. serving (though it still has two fewer than Pepsi), at just the time when consumers seem to favor lighter tastes. Indeed, all forecasts point to a severe decrease in sales of sugar-based soft drinks because an aging, weight- conscious population is expected to prefer diet sodas...