Word: favor
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...percent or more of the land affected by a zoning change may, by objecting, force the City Council to pass it by a vote of seven to two, rather than the usual six to three. Critics of the University say the provision inevitably stacks the deck in Harvard's favor on real estate issues...
...Certainly, it plays in their favor to be on the Harvard Square Advisory Board," Wolf says. "I don't think their presence is inappropriate, but the question is whether the other members of the committee are chosen in such a way so as to be favorable to the University...
...that will struggle on only as long as Washington continues to pay the rent and Salvadoran officials agree to play along. (ARENA has already asserted that it does not intend to bow to U.S. demands even if it means a drastic reduction of aid.) The U.S. did Duarte no favor by emphasizing the fight against Communist guerrillas instead of reinforcing his agenda for reconciliation, economic growth and social reform. Washington also held Duarte -- and others in Central America -- to the pluralistic standards of North America at a time when the Latin tradition of the caudillo, or strongman, might have proved...
...their races, voters proved there are limits to tolerance. In Georgia's De Kalb County, Congressman Pat Swindall was indicted last month for lying to a grand jury about accepting a $150,000 loan that might have been laundered drug money. His constituents tossed him out in favor of actor Ben Jones, formerly Cooter on TV's The Dukes of Hazzard...
...respectable majority, although Dukakis did better than expected among Democrats who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. According to the NBC-Wall Street Journal Election Day poll, Bush captured just 41% of that critical bloc. Voters who decided late, many of them Reagan Democrats, broke in favor of Dukakis. Outside the South, this group is heavily Roman Catholic. One of the few Democratic consolations this week was that Dukakis had eked out a narrow majority (52% vs. 48%) among Catholics, who were once a pillar of the party's coalition. Four years ago Reagan won 56% of the Catholic...