Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state court ruled in favor of Yale University last week, with a decision backing the university's suit to deny a privately-owned literary magazine the use of the name "Yale" in its title...
...charges arose last semester after Wells was rejected for the position by a university-wide search committee. Members of that committee said that the panel's chairman, Vice President for Operational Services Arthur Hirsch, biased the search in favor of Logan--who eventually was named as director...
After leaving, the group issued a statement stating they had made "a strong stand in favor of a dramatic increase of military research on campus...
...with Franzosa preparing to head for the bench in favor of a sixth skater, right wing Tom Wallack deflected a soft shot off the stick of Bruin defenseman Tom Roberts for the tying goal...
Nevertheless, the chiefs went into "the Tank," their inner sanctum in the Pentagon, to decide on a joint position. They split: Vessey and Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Gabriel leaned in favor of the plan, while Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer, whose service had responsibility for the Pershing II and who therefore had a proprietary interest in seeing it continued, leaned against it, along with Chief of Naval Operations James Watkins. The chiefs' equivocal report never reached the President, who had asked...