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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about it is that for an individual to leave orthodox treatment is to choose to leave their only real chance for survival. It is suicide we're talking about." The FDA has cases of women with cervical cancer who refused surgery, which has a 65% cure rate, in favor of taking Laetrile, and died. Similar cases are cited by Harvard Neurosurgeon H. Thomas Ballantine, a past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He calls Laetrile "pure quackery." Says Illinois State Representative Eugenia Chapman: "Persons victimized by cancer should not be twice victimized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Damn the Doctors--and Washington | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...they reached more than $20 million. The grills are catching on worldwide; they are hot sellers in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. One reason for their popularity: with all the talk about energy saving, people have an added incentive to shun the gas or electric stove in favor of alfresco cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Backyard Bonanza | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Rake's Progress | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Like the task force on College life, the advising task force, chaired by Radcliffe President Matina Horner, will come out in favor of pre-assignment of freshmen to Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take two jiggers of college life, two three-fourths cup quality one decomposing student and a lot of | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

Like the task force on advising and counselling, the task force came out in favor of "no-choice" pre-freshman housing assignments, modeled after the Yale system. It also advocated giving credit for the performing arts as long as "such activities are part of an analytically and theoretically rigorous course of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: teaspoons of advice and counsel, educational resources, body, a dash of pedagogy concentration... | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

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