Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scant ten months after it won a disappointing 9% of the popular vote in general elections. The focal point of the five-day meeting, called "a Communist debate for democracy and socialism," was Carrillo's proposal to drop the party's "Leninist" label in favor of "Marxist, democratic and revolutionary." Even prior to the congress, the proposal, which is known as Thesis XV, had upset several provincial and regional party conferences. The furor was not only over the concept itself, one striking even by Eurocommunist standards, but also over sometimes heavy-handed manipulation by the leadership...
...hole and took, in the ever-inventive golf vernacular, a "snow man." "You know what a snow man looks like," said Paxton, "One ball of snow on top of another--an 8!" Paxton shot 81. George Arnold managed an 85. Alex Vik and Glenn Alexander eschewed the carnage in favor of hourlies...
From that point on, all the momentum shifted to New Hampshire's favor, and in the words of the Crimson mentor, "UNH went to town." Translate that to mean that the Wildcats pumped in four goals in the remaining minutes, putting the contest out of reach...
Just last week, the Harvard Corporation voted in favor of a resolution before American Home Products stockholders proposing a committee to reexamine marketing policies and correct abuses where they exist, although that resolution is not likely to pass. Several countries have also taken action to prevent further nutritional harm. Malaysia has initiated a national breast feeding campaign. In Guinea-Bissau, bottles are available only by prescription. In Jamaica, mothercraft personnel are forbidden to enter hospitals...
Scientists today generally assume, and the mathematical probabilities favor, the existence of intelligent life among the myriad planets wheeling through the cosmos. If that is so, what happens to the Creator-God who made man "in his own image," or to the Christian doctrine that this God took the extraordinary step of becoming man in order to redeem one species of bipedal beings on earth...