Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...direct result of Deng's attempts to retain the upper hand in a protracted power struggle among China's leaders. The disarray was signaled by the failure in recent weeks of party elders to reach consensus on the formal ouster of party chief Zhao Ziyang, who had lost favor because he sympathized with the student protesters. Within the party rank and file, the hard-liners' attempts to brand Zhao a counterrevolutionary had met with silent resistance and even mutters of bu dui (not correct...
...Mainz, West Germany, Bush delivered his strongest speech since the Inauguration. He put the U.S. squarely in favor of the unification of Europe, addressing widespread pressure to lower the Continent's political as well as military tensions: "The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free." Turning specifically to the changing shape of some East bloc nations, Bush argued that their "passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. There cannot be a common European home until all within are free to move from room to room." But, he said, "let the Soviets know that our goal...
...within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Core's 10th anniversary this spring prompted a review that put aside the larger philosophical issues in favor of administrative concerns...
...this Core area it is most evident that, 10 years after the inception of the Core, there are some Harvard faculty members who still favor "the 100 great books concept" over teaching ways of reasoning...
...There were a few [faculty members in Literature and Arts] who deplored the stress on methodology and would favor a return to 'important works' as such," the report says. "This tendency is related to the few, but insistent, voices that request the return of survey courses...