Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the results, however, were ambiguous. Standout example: the Michigan caucuses, Saturday's main event. The state was stacked in Mondale's favor; he had the backing of the United Auto Workers and almost every Michigan Democratic politician with a recognizable name. Some caucuses were held in unpublicized locations, others in union halls under the eyes of U.A.W. officials...
...battles rage on. Lowell House Committee established its own Monroe Doctrine during the recent opera, and action which brought down heavy crossfire on innocent Lowell House checker, Winnifred Linnane. Usually in favor of interhouse, Linnane had to bear the brunt of the ruling: "they think it's me," she protests, "but it's you kids...
What the court seemingly ignores, however, is the distinction between neutrality and overt bias in favor of one religion. When the city gives free textbooks or transportation, it is part of a value-neutral effort on the part of the government to treat all religions equally. Jewish schools can receive the free textbooks as can non-denominational private schools. But when the city makes an a priori decision to put up a nativity scene, it is specifically singling out for approval one aspect of one religious celebration from a myriad of beliefs and practices...
...modern book based on the integrity of a humble and skeptical view of the natural world and of the human beings in it. It gives no support to prejudice in favor of the superiority of human beings or of one sex over another. It does celebrate a child's generous view of the world and a child's love of that world...
...bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through the movie like a puzzled zombie. Did she do Mike's Murder as a favor to Bridges, who in Urban Cowboy gave Winger her first meaty role? It looks more like penance...