Word: favorable
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...studies 20 hours and 25 minutes a week during the term. Whether he lives there or not, he'd like to be a member of Lowell or Eliot House. In his own House, he is acquainted with exactly 69.8 of his fellow residents. Chances are five to one in favor of his reading The Crimson regularly...
...Harvard in a 3-0 hole from which it would not escape. Georgia sealed the win with Toledo Corrales's 6-2, 7-5 victory over Majmudar at No. 4, but Harvard's three ongoing matches at the time were decidedly in favor of the Crimson...
...Barry Goldwater came out in favor of lifting the ban on gays in the military -- on the exquisitely conservative grounds that sexuality was none of the government's business. The tongue-clucking from the right was deafening. Gary Bauer, the president of the Family Research Council and now a kingmaker of the GOP's religious right, lamented publicly that "it's sad ? Sen. Goldwater was once the authentic voice of American conservatism." Ah, but Goldwater didn't change his stripes, the GOP did. Bauer is the "authentic voice" of something else entirely: a radical faction that is fast taking over...
Students who have been demonstrating against Suharto's rule and in favor of democracy since February were more forthright. SUHARTO MUST BE THROWN OUT LIKE A DOG, read graffiti outside the elite Trisakti University in Jakarta. SUHARTO SUCKS THE PEOPLE'S BLOOD...
...armed struggle," Hillenbrand says. "And it's especially big because of two contradictory elements, both Sinn Fein and the Protestant paramilitaries, are aboard." To the south, in the Irish Republic, the endorsement was even stronger. According to preliminary results, 95 percent have voted not only in favor of peace but in an extraordinary gesture enacted a constitutional amendment dropping the Republic's territorial claim on the six counties of Northern Ireland...