Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working in the refugees' favor is a formidable Hispanic power structure in Miami that has aggressively reached out to new arrivals, trying to integrate them into the city. Miami's blacks, meanwhile, feel that the Hispanic powers have conspired to keep them out of the economic mainstream...
...least the past decade, the Council has been divided between four conservative Independents, with their commitment to neighborhood and business concerns, and four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members, who favor rent control and limits on development...
...described himself as "more moderate" than Graham. He also said he would favor Proposition 1-2-3, but only with safeguards that would protect minority and low-income citizens from "being squeezed out" by rent-control landlords interested in prospective condominium buyers...
...Mass Ave. where Harvard plans to build what it has advertised as a "sunny resort hotel." The Elks Club of Grand Forks, North Dakota and the I Tapa Keg Fraternity of the University of Anchorage are disappointed to find that they have been turned down by the management in favor of a delegation from Luxembourg--consisting of the country's entire population--which will be hosted by the Harvard Model Nuclear Superpower Conference...
Mubarak and Hussein, speaking separately in Cairo and Amman, discouraged any suggestion that Bush should come up with a new set of peace proposals. As they see it, all the parties to the conflict, except for the present Israeli government, already favor the convening of an international conference that includes Palestinian representation. "We don't need any more new ; initiatives," Hussein said. "There is a general agreement that an international conference would be the venue for the establishment of peace. All the parties have to participate. The Palestinians have to be involved. So we have to get on with...