Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with the task of guiding the future of one of the most scenic states, Ray finds the job "fascinating, exasperating, dismaying, frustrating, challenging ?all those things." Blithely disregarding her fall in favor, she has already announced that she will run for another term when her first one is up in 1981. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wryly thanked her for not announcing for the presidency. Small chance of that?Dixy Lee Ray relishes too much delivering thunderbolts from the Olympia of her own Washington...
...treatment of sex is also slanted in favor of the young; indeed, the Tuesday night sitcoms are a giddy celebration of post-pubescent horniness. The kids of Happy Days are always trying to score with cheerleader types; the appealingly libidinous roommates of Three's Company spend so much time trying to turn their platonic ménage à trois into an orgy that the show has the dizzy ambience of a junior high coed slumber party. Adults do not have nearly as much fun. On Soap and Three's Company, impotent middle-aged characters are the butts...
...Minutemen built up a lead in the lighter weights, but two consecutive victories by co-captains Tom Bixby and Jim Corcoran narrowed the gap and turned the tide in favor of the Crimson grapplers...
...decision to provide hot breakfasts during exam period follows CHUL's 15-to-4 vote in favor of the measure...
...Monday CHUL voted, 10-9, with 12 abstentions, against a student resolution to use the meals tax funds to fund hot breakfast for spring semester, although CHUL's student members voted, 6-5, with three abstentions, in favor of the resolution...