Word: favor
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...veteran of both the city's school committee and council, Duehay is a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, the leading liberal group in the city. He has voted in favor of rent control and restrictions on condominium conversions throughout his council tenure...
...military thinking by rewarding and advancing officers who are expert in tactics and innovation, not program managers. "We've got to outsmart the enemy," says the Senator, who was shocked to discover that the academies have virtually squeezed out the required study of military history and tactics in favor of the social and political sciences...
...French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson and Defense Minister Charles Hernu. At the close of the visit, Egypt announced that it had signed a $1 billion agreement with France for the purchase of 20 advanced Mirage 2000 jet fighters. The decision pleased neither Israel, which does not look with favor on arms purchases by any Arab state, nor the U.S., which would have preferred that Egypt buy American when it modernizes its outmoded arsenal. Mubarak presumably is anxious to broaden the base of the country's arms purchases. The Mirage deal is an opportunity for Mubarak to avoid becoming completely...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, was picked last week by the National Organization for Women to head a legal team that will appeal a lower court ruling that allows states to rescind their votes in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment and finds unconstitutional the congressional extension of the dead-line for ratification of the proposed amendment. In a legal matter closer to home, Tribe will represent Grendel's Den, a Cambridge restaurant, before the Supreme Court in the final step of the restaurant's ten-year battle to obtain a liquor license. Under a Massachusetts statute giving...
...sophomore returned the favor three minutes later, and McCaskill bumped number 19 home for a 3-1 Vermont lead. Greg Olson cut the margin to 3-2 before the period ended with a power-play goal from Greg Chalmers and Fusco...