Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October, a destitute AIAW formally declared war, filing an antitrust suit against its rival organization. A Federal District Court judge ruled in favor of the NCAA, and in March the AIAW finally conceded defeat and closed up shop...
Mandelbaum: Once in office, a variety of pressures come to bear on any president that incline him to favor arms control, and these pressures have come to bear on Mr. Reagan. They have been enumerated here: domestic political pressure, international pressure, the feelings of our allies. Costs are important. Mr. Reagan has budget problems. A large nuclear buildup promises to be extremely expensive. And also...presidents have really felt the personal weight of the nuclear responsibility that each of them bears. And I think Mr. Reagan can hardly avoid feeling that way as well...
...always difficult for Williamson, but the doctor-to-be always got the work done. During freshman and sophomore years she also played viola for the Harvard/Radcliffe orchestra and violin for the Kuumba Singers. Williamson adds she also was politically active in protests against divestiture in South Africa, and in favor of the Afro-American Studies department, a Third World Center, and women's studies. The political climate at Harvard has calmed down significantly in the last two years, she says, enabling her to focus on her studies and her hoop...
Other admissions officers, like Yale's David, favor the SAT as a relatively better judge of aptitude. In their view, SATs are at least less curriculum-linked than the achievement tests and so offer some value as an equalizer. "Some schools just don't have the preparation for Achievements and the SATs tell more," says Richard G. Jaeger, associate director of admissions at Dartmouth David agrees that the SAT is somewhat effective as an equalizer: "Since the kind of achievement being measured is picked up over time, it is to a certain extent curriculum-free...
...like the materialization of some dreaded, unexpected schism, making for intense debate in the highest councils of the church. Before John Paul's dramatic Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored...