Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danger of becoming caricatures of youselves. Do yourselves and your readers a favor swallow your pride, admit that you screwed up, and give us back Bloom County. Guy Molyneux...
This lack of Black representation has led some to doubt whether the proposal has everyone's best interests in mind. Wilson, who says Florida A&M already adheres to higher state standards than the NCAA ruling establishes, took issue with Paterno, who argued in favor of the plan on the convention floor in January. "He said something to the effect that it might hurt for a while; but we should just bear with them and later we'd be grateful for their help.' Those are nearly the same words our slavemasters used when they beat...
Marcus is conducting a survey of all students and faculty with accounts on the Harvard computer system asking for their opinions on the current post-winter break exam schedule. The 41 people who have responded unanimously favor a later fall starting date mid-December finals and an extended four week winter break, he said this week...
...movement's members are mostly under 35, although an older fringe of over-50s is also active. Most of them vigorously reject the traditional German work ethic, sense of order, loyalty to family and security in favor of nebulous concepts of self-determination and grass-roots activism. They oppose nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The alternatives are passionate about a clean and safe environment, about women's rights as well as those of oppressed minorities like immigrant workers and homosexuals. Says Carl Amery, 60, Bavarian writer, environmentalist and Green Party member: "The alternative movement is trying to recapture...
However reasonable Arafat's approach may have seemed, the P.L.O. was still not prepared to make the concessions necessary to help the U.S. pursue its plan for a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East. The P.L.O.'s failure to come out more unambiguously in favor of Reagan's proposal, which has been rejected by the Israeli government, may make it more difficult for the U.S. to pressure Israel to freeze construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to open negotiations with King Hussein. If neither Israel nor the P.L.O. soon makes...