Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston used-car lot, is a former college basketball player who did time in Leavenworth for his role in a point-shaving scandal. The fact that he is an ex-con has somehow been erased from official records. For this dispensation, Earl knows that he owes someone a favor, and when the call comes, it looks simple. All he has to do is steal a car in Rhode Island...
...goal turned the game towards the Lady Friars' favor. At the 8:31 mark of the period, senior forward Heather LaDuke fired a pass from behind the Harvard goal to wide-open teammate Sarah Coan, who easily stuffed the puck from the front of the net for a 2-0 Providence lead...
...Taysir Aruri, former lecturer in physics at Birzeit University in the West Bank, said residents in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Middle East as a whole favor a two-state peace resolution...
Clearly, many students have used and will continue to use the dual-submission policy to slack off. On the other hand, however, when students are punished for their honesty in requesting dual submissions, then these students might as well return the favor the next time by dual submitting without permission. If the University wants to live up to its motto of Veritas, it needs to reconsider the current guidelines along which the dual submission policy rests...
...that postmodernism has abandoned its original sense of humor in favor of just-so classicism, it is Eisenman who is left to build in the architectural jokes: the disintegrating ersatz archway and cartoony castellated brick towers around the perimeter of Wexner (alluding to an old armory on the site that was razed in 1958); the curious floor-to-chest-height windows in the top-floor offices; the short, folly stairway that goes nowhere; or the boatlike carbuncle on top of the building with no practical function whatsoever...