Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McLaughlin said yesterday that a majority of basketball coaches favor the freshman in eligibility rule, but that athletic directors at larger schools were afraid that it would be too expensive Keeping first-year students off the varsity would necessitate forming special freshman teams with their own coaches and travel expenses. McLaughlin explained...
...Minister Garret FitzGerald to make a public apology for ever having started the fuss. But in a country of 3.1 million Roman Catholics, 96% of the population, the result was never in doubt: by a vote of 66% to 33%, the Irish electorate last week declared itself firmly in favor of a constitutional amendment that would ban abortions...
...Three elections ago, FitzGerald let the genie out of the bottle when he told the pro-life group that an abortion amendment "was an integral part of our program." Two governments later, his Fein Gael Party drafted a proposed amendment, only to have it rejected by coalition dissidents in favor of an alternative advanced by the Fianna Fáil opposition. All the while, the struggle between the pro-and antiabortion lobbies took on a strongly religious character. Groups of nuns distributed pro-life literature door to door, and village priests denounced the amendment's opponents in hellfire sermons...
...nation's college freshmen and sophomores, are earning their credits on these campuses. But in the midst of expansion, the community, or junior, colleges strayed from their original academic purpose. Trying to be all things to all students, many of them de-emphasized the traditional curriculum in favor of such "practical" subjects as refrigeration mechanics and creative divorce. A decade ago, roughly two-thirds of all community-college students planned to transfer to four-year schools; today that figure is down to about one-third...
...students--one for every 10 that demonstrated in 1978--rallied in support of those on the committee who had voted in favor of the resolution. To many activists, it seemed that it was only a matter of time before the ACSR passed a divestiture resolution...