Word: favor
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Four and a half minutes later it was already 3-0 in favor of the hosts, and it looked like a nine-goal margin of defeat would be quite an accomplishment for the visitors...
Wilder colors, like oranges, reds blues, purples and wins, remain at the forefront of fashion, says Ruotolo. He boasts that when he recently presented several partially shaved women with frosted blue hair at a fashion show in Boston, "the crowd went wild!" At Olive's in Boston, women favor cellophane colors of plums, wines and reds...
...arms-talk link "enhances the likelihood" that Congress will release funds for production of an additional 21 MX missiles, bringing the total to 42. One key backer was Democratic Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who told several colleagues that he planned to vote in favor of the MX, though he declined to make his position public. Democratic Congressman Norman Sisisky of Virginia, who moved from opposing the MX to an undecided position, admitted, "Geneva has changed the balance." Some MX detractors said privately that they will postpone their campaign against the many-lived missile until...
Fortunately for them, while Gold Coast residents voted last week 114-24 in favor of a "freeze on the testing, storage or deployment of nuclear weapons" at Adams House, the organizers deemed that such a low level of participation meant they couldn't claim a mandate. Another eight people abstained, and 30 cast their ballots to call it a "farce...
...have as we for ACSR imports," says Silvers, noting that body's 6-5-1 vote last spring in favor of complete divestment. That marked the first time a plutality of ACSR members had over come out in favor of divestment which organizers called a major victory for the cause...