Word: favorable
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...House Ways and Means Committee, prefers a tax credit equal to 25% of the wages of new employees, up to $4,200 per worker. Presumably this would induce businesses to hire more people, but it would not encourage capital spending, which continues to lag. "We're all in favor of getting unemployment down," says Beryl Spnnkel, executive vice president of Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago and a member of the TIME Board of Economists. "But the question is: Are we going to get it down in the long run by encouraging investment in new plant and equipment...
Currently, Massacchusetts has no one on death row. But if the time comes when an execution is planned in the state, Bedau and the other abolitionists favor a grass roots approach of a "monstrous rally with 1000, 10,000 or even 100,000 people" to protest the move...
...committee of Radcliffe students last night called for the establishment of an interdisciplinary women's studies concentration at Harvard that would help change what they said was the University's bias in favor of a white male viewpoint...
...list of leftouts continues. Professor James Q. Wilson's recent book Thinking About Crime, slashed through the blizzard of liberal sentiments about reform and re-education to outline a daring, new position in favor of jail cells and bread rations. Captain Lock-em-Up, who admittedly does not stand alone among Harvard government professors, will speak in a panel discussion at the Harvard Law Forum, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. at Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School. Wilson's co-panelists will be Joseph Jordan, your average Boston Police Commissioner, and George V. Higgins...
However Dr. Mitchell Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, said yesterday the larger voting unit includes many employees who had not had previous contact with the union, and so were more likely to vote in favor of the union...