Word: favor
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...Cambridge in time for kickoff of the Harvard-Yale game at noon the next day.Some called driving a total of 12 hours for a two-and-a-half hour hockey game dedication. Though covering away games is very important, no one would have faulted forsaking the trip in favor of seeing my last “Game” in Harvard Stadium.Others weighed in with a more neutral judgment, mentioning that we were “intense” and leaving it at that. A lot of people just thought we were insane and quite possibly compromising the Harvard-Yale...
...from Emily West just four minutes later. With the score 3-0, Minnesota was too far ahead for the Crimson to catch up. “There were a couple of questionable goals that were scored that could have gone the other way if it had been in our favor...so the kids did everything that they could do,” Stone said. Harvard did not let up, though, and tri-captain Jenny Brine outskated the Gophers and scored a final goal, unassisted, at 14:40 in the third period. “We changed a few things...
...outlets, but on this particular midweek afternoon business is visibly slow, with security guards in Prada's Miu Miu store outnumbering customers by two to one and sales assistants outnumbering security guards by the same margin. The neighboring Rigby & Peller shop, offering the classic lingerie styles reputed to find favor with the Queen alongside racier, French maid-themed numbers, is also deserted, but two perky salesgirls claim weekend trade is brisk. "Once people have tried our bras, they always come back," says one. "Everybody wants that uplift." It's a sentiment gloomy British retailers and their gloomier customers must surely...
...Though polls show 63% of voters favor the HAT law, it remains controversial for many. Drogstop, an organization made up mostly of conservative parties and religious groups, warns that if the law is accepted by the electorate, "government-sanctioned heroin distribution will be extended to cocaine and other drugs." Drogstop also argues that the HAT program, which is bankrolled by insurance companies, contributes to exorbitant health and social costs...
Hard as it is to imagine Washington schools ranking among the best in the country, the city does have some things working in its favor. The system is relatively small, making it easier to redirect. As in New York City, the board of education was recently dissolved, which means changes can be made without waiting for the blessing of a fractious body of overseers. And now that a third of Washington's kids are in charter schools, there is intense pressure on the public system to keep the students it still has. If they keep fleeing the system...