Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we have a very good chance," he says. "The betting line is something like 15 points [in Harvard's favor]. That's out of hand...
...ardent Zionist, I am saddened that I find myself compelled to vote in favor of Question #5 in the Cambridge election next month. I encounter two reservations which, upon careful consideration, are ultimately outweighed by the gravity of the current situation in Israel and the occupied territories...
...twice imprisoned, this upstart Irishman was the model for the protagonist of Edwin O'Connor's political novel, The Last Hurrah. But Curley's career was as checkered as it was successful. During his 1945 mayoral campaign, Curley was under indictment for mail fraud, based on a $60,000 favor he had done while in Congress. Curley won the election, was convicted of the charges and drew his mayoral salary for five months while in jail. When he was released in 1947, the people of Boston greeted him with a band and motorcade--suitable for the man who said "Politics...
There are days when the wind is at your back, the sun is on your side of the field and the numbers are in your favor...
...NASA initially promoted the shuttle as a routine "space truck," an efficient, economical transport vehicle capable of lofting any payload -- commercial, scientific or military -- into orbit. Washington succumbed to that pitch, allowing NASA to decree ! that expendable rockets such as the Delta, Atlas and Titan be phased out in favor of the shuttle...