Word: favor
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Allowing prayer in public schools, the item on the New Right list, has congressional support that is a mile wide but an inch deep. Most legislators say favor finding a way to reverse the Supreme Court decision that school prayers the constitutional separation of and state, but they have never willing to fight strongly enough to such a proposal into law. Helms has a that would do just that; if it comes to a roll call on the House and Senate a majority will probably be unwill to go on record as being opposed to al children to pray...
...Championship tournament has always been the high point of the season, the equivalent of the Beanpot for the men. But the league's athletic directors are now in the process of phasing out the Ivy Tournaments for women's basketball, swimming, ice hockey, softball and soccer in favor of round robin matches, with the championship to be decided based on regular-season Ivy League records...
...minority and seed a loyal Moslem middle class, the military leaders hoped they could create a province loyal to be whims of the western, almost entirely Moslem, portion of the nation. In democratic elections held the previous December the people of East Pakistan had cast ballots over whelmingly in favor of a regional parts. Shark Mupbar Rahman's Awami league, which promised to demand what amounted to home rule...
Harvard Will Sue Harvard officials said yesterday that even if the NLRB rules in favor of District 65, the University would try to block another election by suing the labor agency in federal court...
...impossible to maintain the present aid-blind policy, drew a distinction between Wesleyan's decision to reject students asking for aid--without giving them the chance to try to find alternate ways of paying tuition--and the "admit-deny" option. Under the latter, which Jewett said he probably would favor, a student would be told he qualified for admission on merit grounds but that the college couldn't afford to give...