Word: favor
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Union officials said students are needed to drum up support for its side and to pressure the University not to appeal the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) decision on the challenge, if the board rules in the union's favor...
Scott Albertson '91 asked Westheimer if she was in favor of students engaging in indiscriminate sex and asked her to sign his own (wrapped) condom...
...most of the summer, students who favor unification of North and South Korea and an end to American influence have been clashing with police. However it played on foreign television screens, in Seoul these confrontations had the feel of street theater, not revolution. Students knew just how far they could go, and the riot police knew their roles...
George Bush has discovered women: that they work (hence his proposal in July for a $2.2 billion child-care tax credit) and, now, that they have children. Attempting to close what remains of his once cavernous gender gap, Bush last week came out in favor of unpaid leave for parents on the job. Parting company with the Reagan Administration and his running mate, Dan Quayle, Bush surprised a gathering of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women, saying, "We need to ensure that women don't have to worry about getting their jobs back after having a child or caring...
Regulations like these also douse the simple joy of dressing, not for success or status, but just as self-expression. Abraham Mora, a junior at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School, has packed away his tie-dye Ts ("so trendy now") in favor of Girbaud jeans and Cole-Haan loafers. "Just look at me," says Michael Barnett, a junior at Washington's Field School who sports a vigorously declarative print shirt. "I'm a wild and crazy guy. With dress codes you don't get to see other people's personalities, just the same old clothes." Brand-name sportswear, from...