Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine affair thus should be seen in the context of Allen's previous activities. He was just doing "old friend" Tomotso Takese a favor by setting up the interview and did not want to offend the Japanese visitors by refusing the thousand dollars. But Allen should have remembered that the "gift" violated American standards of ethics, the standards a high White House official is obliged to uphold. His entire career, in fact, has displayed a personal moral code highly inappropriate for a man in his position. Because of this continued record of memory lapses, mistakes, and most importantly, questionable morality...
...pamphlet will include a history of anti-gay discrimination at Harvard, and the results of a University-run poll of students' opinions on gay issues. More than 1300 undergraduates signed a petition in favor of the policy last April when the Council was considering the clause...
...majority of the members vote in its favor, the Ivy League regains Division 1-A status for the 1982-83 football season. Following that season, however, it must undergo an as-yet-to-be-determined procedure in an attempt to make the waiver permanent
...Swedish town of Mora, 300 children were accused of employing demon cats to steal butter, cheese and bacon. Fifteen of the children were killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. By the mid-18th century, the cat was back in favor. Frederick the Great thought so highly of cats he made them official guards of his army's stores and ordered conquered towns to furnish supplies of cats. The Industrial Revolution greatly expanded the middle class and accelerated the re-entry of felines into social acceptance by employing them in rodent-infested...
None of this proves that the single writer was Moses, but Radday is already hard at work on Exodus and will then search Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Radday's challenge will be fiercely resisted by scholars who favor the entrenched J.E.P.D. theory, partly because he deals exclusively with linguistic criteria and ignores stylistic variations. Radday is no right-wing ideologue, however. Earlier he earned wide acclaim when his whirring computers supported the conventional theory that multiple authors produced the books of Judges, Zechariah and Isaiah. Says Radday: "These scholars can't have it both ways, approving a method...