Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carrillo, however, will split some time with sophomore Linda Doyle in the early going, if for no other reason than to favor her reconstructed knee for a while...
...though the game's on Columbia's home turf, the fact that it's so early in the season could favor Harvard...
There are, however, still strong party ties that continue despite ideological shifts within the party, Democrats who favor the death penalty, oppose abortion, and oppose the nuclear freeze, are still sent to the Legislature, even when running against liberal Republicans...
...mixed feelings that the new technologies can arouse. Says he: "There is something unnatural, even violent, about a procedure that takes a newborn from its mother's arms and gives it to another by virtue of a contract. But I don't think I'm in favor of outlawing it. The touching search for children may justify a great many things that make others of us who are more fortunate uncomfortable...
...case against interviews with writers is historic: they exploit personalities, expose their subjects in verbal undress, without their styles hitched up, and they traffic in anecdote and gossip. This is also the case in favor of such interviews. And why not? How else would a faithful reader learn- as he does in Writers at Work-that Elizabeth Bishop, while a student at Vassar, ate from a bedside pot of Roquefort cheese at night to stimulate dreams for her notebooks, and once spent a night in a tree outside her dormitory? Or know about Carson McCullers' visiting Elizabeth Bowen...