Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice, we made a choice, People voted in favor of happiness and against...
...That a school has successfully mounted a series of programs, or even that its courses find favor with experienced practitioners does not mean that its faculty has yet devised an ideal way to prepare students for responsible jobs in their profession. No curriculum ever achieves this aim in full--education is too imperfect a process for that--and many faculties are further from the goal than their presidents would like to admit. But it is particularly unlikely that a young professional school embarked on an ambitious new strategy will manage in two decades to build a truly satisfactory curriculum...
...Communism may be premature, but there are signs that a verdict is being reached in the long twilight struggle between this century's two dominant ideologies. While scrambling to find euphemisms for such apostate phrases as "private property," the Soviets are jettisoning many of their Communist tenets in favor of some that are at the heart of democratic capitalism: contested elections, pluralism, codified individual rights, market incentives and the reward of private enterprise...
Forman's day had its ups and downs as well, and Greg Ubert was in the same boat. In the very next inning, Forman walked two of three batters, prompting Nahigian to yank him in favor of Ubert. The senior righthander struck out Kevin Connelly, but then served up a triple to Giroux, scoring both of Forman's walk recipients for a 5-2 Crimson deficit...
...There's quite a large number of faculty in favor of pre-registration, especially at the beginning of semester when a lot of problems arise in the larger courses," says Pilbeam...