Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently sent a first draft of the report to HRE president Sally Zeckhauser and tenants. Zeckhauser said yesterday that the report did not favor either position. "It seemed to lay out both sides fairly," she added...
Most Faculty members said they favor holding a "constitutional convention"--proposed earlier in the week by the implementation committee--to discuss and finalize a proposal...
During the past term four councilors--members of the Cambridge Civic Association CCA)--publicly pledged themselves to defending rent control while four others--members of the Independent slate--have consistently voted against rent control and in favor of exemptions such as those requested by the Linnaean and Washington tenants...
Reagan does have U.S. history in favor of his new campaign. From Benjamin Franklin, organizing Philadelphia's fire department (even today 85% of U.S. fire fighters are volunteers), to the army of people who now donate their time to hospitals, schools, museums and town governments, Americans are predisposed to good works. In 1980 individuals donated $43 billion to charity, on the average 1.8% of their incomes. One of every four Americans does some form of volunteer work...
Later architects, from Robert Venturi to Michael Graves, may seem to be coming out in favor of vernacular, complexity, decoration, memory and whatnot-the whole postmodernist bag of tricks, from Cape Cod shingles to Roman arches-but are all pointy-headed clones of the Compound, still seeking to exalt the Word (theory and manifestos) over the Act (workable buildings). Real populist architecture has no chance. Within the taste centers, Wolfe says, "there was no way for an architect to gain prestige through an architecture that was wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist...