Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooray to Frank Trippett for his Essay, "New Sentimental Journey" [Jan. 30]. Fortunately, he has merely predicated what we romanticists have always (albeit secretly) predicted-that the pendulum would inevitably swing back, in our favor...
Cocaine is currently used as a local anesthetic, though it is being phased out in many cases in favor of synthetic drugs such as procaine which do not have the adverse effects on the nervous system common to cocaine...
...recognized these problems and has tried to correct them this time around. Patton and four other students spent much of the summer working with Fisher to revise and improve the course. The syllabus was expanded, the reading list changed, the problem sets clarified and the discussion sections discarded in favor of a second Fisher lecture each week. Patton says the weaknesses last year--the first time the course was offered--stemmed from organizational problems, not from inherent flaws in Fisher's negotiating theory...
Ever since the Episcopal Church's General Convention voted in favor of women priests and a modernized Prayer Book in 1976, angry U.S. traditionalists have been laying plans for a breakaway. All efforts at Episcopal peacemaking proved unavailing, and now the schism is a fact...
...Harvard as a colossal business corporation that produces a commodity for market consumption--an education, a label, opportunities for higher incomes and greater status. The consumers--students and their parents--can either purchase Harvard's expensive product or choose another. A person with this perspective would also probably favor elite rule over democratic rule, believing students and parents too incompetent to actually deserve any voice in the how's and why's of educating students...