Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several fallacies with the opinion that progressives should favor the draft. First, we can not assume that by spreading the burden of the war buildup throughout society, people will spontaneously fight the militarism. I do believe that people in general move, struggle, and fight based upon how policies or conditions affect their material well-being. The fact that militarism objectively touches the lives of the American people in a negative way establishes the basis for broad acceptance of an anti-imperialist analysis of U.S. foreign policy...
...consider the military buildup worth the sacrifices it entails. The United States has only been in one broadly unpopular war; the American people supported WWI, WWII, Korea, etc. The American people are not consolidated pacifists, and I do believe that there are situations where the majority of Americans would favor a military buildup...
...kept the score close through early on before pulling away from Columbia in the end, winning four of the last five matches. But at the meet's outset, when Lion wrestler Dave Galdi pinned Bill Clapps in the 150-lb. weight class, the score stood at 13-7 in favor of Columbia, it seemed that Harvard might fail in a tight match for the second time in two days...
...M.B.A., Charles Schwab & Co. of San Francisco was initially just another struggling young firm in the securities business, with only a dozen employees and 2,000 or so clients. Then, in 1975, the Securities and Exchange Commission discarded the old fixed-rate system for buying and selling securities in favor of negotiated rates, in which investors are free to haggle with brokers over commissions...
...March 8, 1978, an arsonist set fire to San Diego's Old Globe Theater, and within minutes the interior was completely gutted. Though no one could see it at the time, this act of pure malice was also a kind of favor: it roused the spirits of all those in San Diego who love a play, prompting them to build a new, far better theater. When the new Old Globe opened last month, they could see just how well their $6.5 million had been spent. Both the theater and the company please the eye and delight the mind...