Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprecedented action, the Corporation this week voted in favor of a shareholder resolution attempting to curtail the Arab boycott of Israel. The anti-boycott move came on a vote-which Harvard cast yesterday at Manufacturers Hanover Trust's annual shareholders meeting-seeking to stop the bank from issuing restrictive letters of credit complying with the Arab boycott...
...statement amounted to a presidential endorsement of bills also introduced last week in both houses, and cheered congressional sponsors enough for them to predict quick passage. That may prove to be easier said than done. A Lou Harris poll in January showed 63% of the public in favor of an Agency for Consumer Advocacy and 17% opposed. But support could well decline as debate intensifies and voters begin to look at how the ACA would function...
Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Modern China Studies and Economics, said yesterday the Economics Department is strongly in favor of the journal...
...changed, becoming a Disco, college-oriented center to attract the student market over the last ten to fifteen years. The student situation is but one illustration of the way an unjust revenue structure, private capital investment and the profit motive in housing, deny decent homes to hardworking people in favor of institutions, playgrounds and luxury apartments for the middle and upper classes...
...disqualification of the Crimson 440 relay team swung the meet in URI's favor. "Take those points away from URI and give them to us and we would have won," Hunter said. "The girls were just an inch out of the baton-passing zone," he added...