Word: favorable
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...about the apparent results of this exam. I'd like to think that our colleges are preparing our teachers well, believing as I do that teachers (not politicians) are the ones who will shape the future. I know that the public school system needs reform, and I'm in favor of strong state certification requirements to contribute to that reform. So I wince when I hear the percentage of students who failed and wince again when I think about how much we as a state and a nation have to do to remedy the situation...
When The Crimson was soliciting postcard editorials in the last weeks of the school year, I had visions of writing to Plympton St. From some exotic port. But these visions were only delusions of grandeur. Getting ready for my second year at Harvard, I knew I would have to favor fiscal prudence over extravagance. So, instead of traveling the world, I merely commute--from my home in the Bronx to Park Avenue to work as a doorman...
...factor working in the plaintiffs' favor is that they're starting to get access to the private records of the gun industry. In the past, suits like these were usually dismissed in the early stages. But in the New York case, plaintiffs have been able to conduct discovery, the stage when lawyers wade through the other side's documents. With tobacco, the climate changed abruptly when plaintiff lawyers got hold of papers revealing internal cigarette-company marketing strategy. Lawyers in some of the gun cases hope to come across evidence that manufacturers have marketing strategies designed to move guns into...
Zhang sounds the ferry's horn at an oncoming barge. He is in favor of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, which, he says, will deepen the water and allow big ships to sail all the way upstream to Chongqing, bringing economic development in their wake. "We are only half developed compared with the Mississippi, where you have dams that make the water flatter and easier for shipping," he says. Like most Chinese today, he is fascinated by the wealth of the U.S. and by its political system. "Mao started the Cultural Revolution on his own. Even if you want...
Crystal also feels that an amendment to the noise ordinance would unfairly favor religious institutions...