Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above all else, though, we were struck by the tone of many of the letters received. Some correspondents took the care to convincingly present their point of view in a straightforward manner, eschewing nastiness in favor of serious efforts to make us change our minds. But others--more than a few, in fact--were downright vicious...
...whole point is this: that by educating people to the fact that the law exists, we were able to do a favor to hundreds of thousands of young men who could, subsequently, have been found guilty, and could have had their lives affected. So we have done them a favor. What we are doing is trying to get the rest of them to do themselves a favor and come forth and register. We've been tremendously successful in doing so. There's one thing that you have to remember: even though the President's grace period of 30 days...
...Church of England's vote on nuclear strategy, in which unilateral disarmament was rejected in favor of deterrence, is irrelevant [Feb. 21]. The role of a church is the teaching of faith and morals, not strategy. A vote on the morality of the use and possession of nuclear weapons would have been more in keeping with the church's task...
Providence immediately lifted Proulx in favor of a sixth skater. But after one rush into the Crimson end. Harvard sent the puck the other way and the Friars couldn't threaten again. With 48 seconds left Mark Fusco gave himself a little more to celebrate on his 22nd birthday by putting a soft backhander into the open net from the red line...
...Parker Brothers, which has been making Monopoly since 1935, warned him in two "hellfire and brimstone" letters to change the name. After one court ruled against Anspach, Parker Brothers buried 40,000 copies of Anti-Monopoly in a dump in Minnesota. But a U.S. appeals court eventually ruled in favor of the professor, holding that the name Monopoly had become generic and that a trademark is lost when it "primarily denotes a product, not the product's producer." Parker Brothers tried a final roll of the dice in the Supreme Court, but last week the Justices declined to review...