Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe the students were misrepresented by the senate," he said. "As a student, it's my opinion that the majority of the students do not favor giving them part of their activity...
Both parties favor strong ties with the U.S., continued Portuguese membership in NATO and measures to strengthen free enterprise. Scares, however, has often been at ideological loggerheads with the Social Democrats, especially on the issue of state ownership of industry. "The Portuguese people must understand that democracy is not made in haste," Scares warned last week, admitting the possibility of long negotiations...
...first one has now been resolved in Westmoreland's favor. It involved the question of whether an internal CBS study of the show, inspired by a TV Guide article last May calling the program "a smear," was protected by a business or journalistic privilege of confidentiality. The study was conducted by CBS News Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin and was summarized by CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter in a memorandum made public in July. Drawing on Benjamin's study, Sauter conceded that the program had deviated from certain CBS News practices, but stood by its substance...
Critics like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth catalogues, object to metric for the very reason that most scholars favor it: the ease of converting one unit to another-say, kilometers to meters-by simply multiplying or dividing by tens. Says Brand: "You can't visualize a tenth very well, but you can imagine a quarter or a half of something." Adds Seaver Leslie, founder of Americans for Customary Weight and Measure: "The metric system is imposed rationality...
...field fence and beyond. One out later, Jay McNamara doubled, then scored under Big Red catcher Dave Menapace's tag when Tony DiCesare lined one to left. When Scott Vierra and Bruce Weller nabbed back-to-back singles, Harvard led 5 1 and Cornell starter Steve Huber left in favor of Larry Brown...