Word: favor
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...actions of the court and the University neglect two considerations which would favor another course. First, on a practical level, banning the book and stripping Staeglich of his degree could provoke and unintended response. The neo-Nazis may try to make Staeglich a martyr, calling him the victim of a conspiracy. A silenced Staeglich may win more Nazi sympathizers than a vocal one. Perhaps a more pragmatic way to combat the propaganda would be pointedly to refute its premise and its "evidence...
...rebuttal, Geraghty surprisingly began to speak in favor of law school by extolling a number of its virtues, including...
...Oxford, a committee headed by Sir Kenneth Dover, master of Corpus Christi College, has been asked to draw up a program of "positive discrimination" in favor of government-school students by next fall. The committee is expected to recommend changes in entrance exams to improve those students' chances. The Chronicle of Higher Education
Many Canadians oppose the missile idea. A January Gallup poll showed 52% against cruise testing, and only 37% in favor. In Ottawa, 15,000 demonstrators marched at an anticruise rally in October. Operation Dismantle, one of Canada's largest antinuclear groups, claims to have tripled its membership, to 2,000, in the past year. The 2 million-member Canadian Labor Congress pledged last week to support the anticruise movement, while last December leaders of five major national churches met with Trudeau to express their "deep concern" over the idea of bringing the missiles to Canada. Some of the protests...
...artificial hearts. Said Dr. Michael DeBakey, the noted heart-transplant surgeon from Houston: "To be a success, the heart must restore the individual to normal life. If all it does is keep the patient alive, it has not succeeded." DeBakey and fellow Houston Transplant Expert Denton Cooley therefore favor transplants, which now offer recipients a 70% to 80% chance of surviving a year and a 42% chance of living five years. The best use of the mechanical heart, says Cooley, may be "to sustain a patient until a donor heart can be found...