Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howe said she had a right to modify her views to reflect the interests of her constituents. While she said that for most of her 23 years on Beacon Hill she had voted against abortion, she now votes pro-choice because her constituents favor free access to abortion...
Every Democratic candidate has come out in favor of more open government and fewer restriction on scientific information, in part as a result of the Iran-contra scandal. On the Republican side, however, Vice President George Bush has not separated himself from the Reagan Administration's policies. Nonetheless, analysts believe Bush may have to change his stance...
...leading union on issues of concern to these workers. Yet at Harvard, AFSCME has also shown a willingness to step back and let the workers organize and control their own fate. AFSCME has let the workers decide and that is part of the reason they should decide in its favor...
After halftime, Harvard turned up the volume on its game radio, while the Redmen changed channels to the easy-listening station. The 3-3 deadlock at the game's midpoint quickly became 4-3,5-3,6-3, etc., in favor of Harvard (6-1 overall...
...lesson for the undergraduates then that money and morality are emphatically divorced--does it have to be that way? Before the Civil War in this country those not necessarily in favor of slavery, but sympathetic to the slave interests, defended their inactivity by pointing to the obvious and apparently telling fact that there was simply too damn much money tied up in it. The sacred, almighty dollar once again! Our own comfort before everything...