Word: favor
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...soccer field,” he said. “I hit it pretty hard.”JACKSONVILLE STATE 7, HARVARD 6After the Crimson let the Gamecocks come back from a seven-run deficit in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Harvard almost returned the favor in the nightcap.Down 7-0 in the top of the seventh inning, the Crimson kept the runners moving with a string of singles and walks, including RBI base knocks by sophomore Tyler Albright, senior Taylor Meehan, Stack-Babich and Way.But with the Jacksonville State lead cut down to one, sophomore...
...committee voted 14-14 on the legislation with two abstentions. Andrea R. Flores ’10, UC president, had to break the tie—she voted in favor of the final two clauses...
...such educated people to consult with the companies that develop new medicines and you cut off a valuable source of knowledge. What's more, pharma's largesse also flows to the schools themselves in the form of multimillion-dollar endowments. Whether or not the companies are trying to curry favor, they're also building labs and bankrolling scholarships - something that becomes increasingly important as the deteriorating economy causes philanthropic giving to dry up. No one disagrees that isolating academia from the industry may be ideal, but even many academics concede that the cooperation yields more good than harm. And while...
...Michael P. Jacobson, a former NYC Corrections commissioner and now director of the Vera Institute of Justice, there is a "historical moment" afoot now to abandon what he and others in the field call the failed policy of "mass incarceration" in favor of systematic and adequately funded re-entry efforts. But nowhere, he cautions, is there such a gap between what we should do - what we know to be the right thing to do policywise - and what we actually...
...Taken together, the emerging Pakistan and Afghanistan policies sound ... impossible, but unavoidable. They will also be politically treacherous. Already, John McCain has made it clear that his position on Afghanistan will be the same as it was on Iraq - in favor of more troops. Obama could easily find himself in the same sort of hawk-vs.-dove debate that has boggled American Presidents from Vietnam to Iraq. Traditionally, Presidents favor more troops - and precipitously lose public support. In this case, Obama's margin for error is minuscule, given the enormity of the economic crisis. He simply can't get bogged...