Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lippers were rumored to favor Goldhagen,the controversial author of the best-sellingHitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germansand the Holocaust, but Harvard officials saidthe donors' preferences would not affect thesearch committee's decision...
...some modicum of comfort, staring blearily at oddly-angled monitors and typing furiously on stress-enhancing keyboards. Our "breaks" from work too often consist of checking e-mail, surfing the Web or playing a quick round of solitaire or Quake. We ignore any fatigue or arm pain in favor of working late into the night to finish that last paper or problem...
...tolerate extraordinary flaws in a successful President and leave almost no margin for error in a threatening witness. He might even be able to fondle a woman in a hallway near the Oval Office and get away with it if she tried to sell her story, asked for a favor or sent a Christmas card...
...bouncy intensity. In this week's premiere, under the mistaken impression that he's replacing narcissistic anchor Pearce McKenzie (appealingly pompous Robert Foxworth), Freundlich orders up the Pope as his first guest and decides to jettison his longtime producer Gale (Megyn Price). He presents his Machiavellian decision as a favor to her. "You work here, what? 9 a.m. to midnight. When you go home, who's waiting to hear about your day? A cat. You are what the guys in our business refer to as a 'news nun.' You may hate me right now, but someday you'll understand that...
Classics concentrator Jennifer T. Stager '00 pointed out that while she was "in favor of making the translation more faithful to the original text, you have to concede something to the social context of the reader, who may or may not belong to that of the author...