Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college don't get financial aid. But that does not excuse the president of Harvard for sloppiness. He deserves the flood of criticism that resulted from his creative remarks, a deluge that, unfortunately, all but obscured the bulk of his message a well-researched, rhetorically admirable polemic in favor of federal support for higher education...
...session that lasted until midnight Friday, the representatives voted. 121-24, in favor of a $6.86 billion budget...
...established policy and the Justice Department was abandoning its Supreme Court case against two schools with discriminatory policies, Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., and North Carolina's Goldsboro Christian Schools. The stormy, and unforeseen, reaction soon brought President Reagan's "explanation" that he did not actually favor a tax break for the schools but thought the IRS had been exceeding its authority. So, he asked, would Congress please pass legislation specifically denying such schools any tax breaks? But Congress refused to oblige. For a month White House aides fidgeted. Then, on Feb. 25, after a federal appeals...
...presumably by overcoming severe obstacles. ("It is impossible, of course," he says in passing, "to predict precisely which students will fall by the wayside.") It is worse that, in drawing absolute lines for the privilege of moving up the socioeconomic ladder, he relies so trustingly on yardsticks that may favor the advantaged...
...voices that have expressed anger and disillusion with Bok's approach to an issue on which he carries so much weight, both as a lobbyist and as an educational leader. If the president of an influential university can compromise his support of the basic principles of equal opportunity in favor of doubtful statistical patterns, we can hardly hope the Reaganites will be more generous. We hope Bok will instead continue to use his considerable influence to further the educational causes that most need support in Washington, rather than distracting the lawmakers and confusing the issues with policy suggestons that would...