Word: favor
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Cuccia then departed in favor of backup QB Don Allard, who led the Crimson offense until John Riordan spelled him late in the fourth quarter...
...response to an audience question about why the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed in his home state, Illinois state senator Mark Q. Rhoads said that many people who professed to favor the ERA actually did not, including some members of the Democratic state party...
Channel 7 isn't the only station to be duped in hiring big-name free agents. In New York, the ABC affiliate, despite its number one rating, is dumping its two anchors in favor of snazzy Tom Snyder. The two departing anchors, Roseanne Scamardella and Ernie Anastos, are homegrown reporters, with strong local support. So rather than being dazzled by the coming of Snyder, New York viewers have inundated the station with calls of protest, and some emotional viewers have even picketed outside the station...
...into an ambiguous 'quarantine'" against the Soviets. "I really thought at the time that this was part of Kennedy's macho-jocko routine to prove American resolve," says Thernstrom. But he adds that his political views were not widely held on campus. Several petitions actually circulated in favor of JFK, and Hertzberg of the Liberal Union formally endorsed the blockade, saying, "Action is now necessary." Almost every anti-war event Tocsin or Hughes organized that October met with mainstream opposition...
...saying they were middle-income and had put a great many children through college. Their forms, Fitzsimmons says, showed annual assets of approximately $600,000. And they not only appealed the aid office's refusal: they wrote, telephoned and angrily visited before giving up on Harvard altogether in favor of a "full ride" at another school. For Fitzsimmons, the incident indicated not only the extent of aid anxiety but also the "economic segregation" his office must attempt to bridge with scholarship money. "After all," he says, "in their neighborhood maybe they are middle-income...