Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of the roll call vote on Resolution 7S-32 was read, I regained much of the confidence that I had lost following the earlier vote in favor of the ROTC resolution. That the Undergraduate Council had reconsidered the constitutionality of Resolution 7S-28 seemed the result of a week of reasoned debate. Democratic participation in the student representative process yielded an important endorsement of minority rights...
...Eagles landed the first goal of the game, but Harvard rushed in to return the favor. Harvard freshman Sarah Leary replaced Kelly Dermody in the nets after about 10 minutes...
...University keeps its proxy voting policiesseparate from its investing policies, according toLiebman. "Although we'll vote in favor [of totaldivestment], we won't sell our stock," he says...
...favor or oppose passing laws making it more difficult for women to have abortions...
Furet views contemporary France as a "republic of the center" in which a consensus has emerged in favor of market economics combined with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...