Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gran Pajaten had long been the subject of legend when, in the 1960s, a group of archaeologists managed to locate and partly explore it. The 8,600-ft.-high site was eventually abandoned, however, in favor of more accessible and hospitable digs. That decision may now prove a boon to the University of Colorado; the school has reached an exclusive five-year agreement with Peru to excavate the ruins and study the surrounding area. And because Gran Pajaten's remote location has been a deterrent to looters as well as scientists, most of the artifacts are expected...
...rally has lured back many individual investors who last year pulled their money out of stocks in favor of safer havens, like money-market funds or Treasury bills. Says Terry Riordan, an E.F. Hutton account executive in Chicago: "There's a lot of excitement. I don't think anyone wants to miss out on this." Observes Ben Bratter, a vice president with Prudential-Bache Securities in Minneapolis: "Nothing infuriates people more than friends' telling them about the money they just made in the market...
...course, the universities which are dipping into the "academic pork barrel" are not "stealing," and there is even a strong argument in favor of their action. For example, if a college needs a new physics lab, why should it compete with the needs of other universities? Why shouldn't it instead just have a local Congressman slip through a piece of legislation that "directs" a federal agency to grant the money? In this way universities can obtain millions without subjecting the proposal to the highly competitive peer review system...
...pulled Gordon with 1:13 remaining in the game in favor of an extra skater. The Eagles were unable to set up in the Husky zone during that span, however, because Sweeney lost two key faceoffs to Northeastern center Rod lsbister...
This is a fetching idea and one that applies to America's most public poet. Approaching his autumnal years, the man once feared as a weevil in the nation's moral fiber is in a disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries...