Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small Boston Garden ice surface seems better suited to a physical, rather than finesse, style of play. But with four teams known for skating and scoring, the cramped Garden rink shouldn't slant in anyone's favor...
...Associated Press survey found 48 Democrats and Republican Sen. Larry Pressler of South Dakota either solidly opposed or leaning against confirmation with 41 Republicans and three Democrats either supporting or leaning in favor of the nomination...
Last year when gay students tabled in dining halls, asking students to sign a petition and answer questionnaires about attitudes on campus, they received several highly homophobic and even hateful responses. One student was even reported as saying, "I wouldn't sign the petition because I'm all in favor of homophobia on campus...
...persuasive as the arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really care what we call ourselves. I just want us to get economic and social equality...
...coined the term Afrindeur Americans to reflect the mingling of African, Indian and European bloodlines. "Historical, biological and cultural integrity is what's in a name," says Counter. "We must be true to all of those." In Los Angeles entertainer John KaSondra has embarked on his own crusade in favor of "Dobanians" -- short for descendants of black African natives in the American North...