Word: favor
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Pepper is far from a one-issue legislator. In 1945 he sponsored a resolution that led to the creation of the World Health Organization and, in the late '40s, bills establishing five of the National Institutes of Health. Not only does he favor a freeze on nuclear arms now, but he advocated one after the end of World War II. Still, nothing offends his sense of justice quite as much as modern society's tendency to view the elderly as a burden or a stereotyped group. He does not feel complimented when someone tells...
When the Committee on College Life began considering a proposal to recognize a "Friends of ROTC" club several weeks ago, a small anti-ROTC movement sprang up in opposition. But the committee ruled in favor of the club--whose avowed purposes are to inform students about military affairs, and to organize meetings of Harvard students enrolled in MIT's Reserve Officer Training Corps program. The committee's overwhelming support of the ROTC club stood in pointed contrast to the heated debates over ROTC itself more than a decade ago--debates that led to ROTC's eviction. The following...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), which proposed the idea of an escrow account, is still circulating petitions among seniors asking them to boycott the traditional Class Gift in favor of the divestiture fund...
...Phillips Brooks House committee that has been gathering student support for the food service workers' union in its upcoming contract negotiations with Harvard suffered its first defeat Tuesday night when the Adams House Committee narrowly rejected a resolution in favor of the union...
...that Arco can afford its strategy is by finding ways to make federal laws work in its favor. Much of its oil comes from Alaska's North Slope. In shipping the oil to ports on the West and Gulf coasts, it utilizes an obscure Internal Revenue Service ruling that classifies the part of the voyage outside U.S. coastal waters as foreign economic activity. Thus the shipping cost can be charged off against foreign income, and certain overseas tax credits are allowed...