Word: favorable
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Interpreted literally, Title VII prevents firms from considering race as a factor in hiring. Created to protect minorities from discrimination, this provision of the Civil Rights Act has therefore not been invoked against affirmative action programs that favor minorities. Affirmative action supporters feared that with political tides in the United States shifting to the right, the Taxman case would give the court the opportunity to codify this shift--eradicating the widespread use of affirmative action policies...
David W. Foster '00, who said he plans to vote for Beth A. Stewart '00, said he is in favor of the council's playing a less political role on campus...
...private demons, be unlocking major creative forces. But rummaging through that old trunk in the attic can just as easily be a sign of flagging inspiration. Of course, it may also be a smart marketing move: in the age of Oprah, a writer who abandons boring fiction in favor of juicy self-revelation is apt to win friends and influence critics...
DIED. HASTINGS KAMUZU BANDA, 90s, Malawi's self-proclaimed President-for-Life whose idiosyncratic tenure was ended by democratic elections in 1994; in Johannesburg. After his country won freedom from Britain in 1964, Banda delayed Africanization and curried favor with apartheid South Africa to bolster the economy...
...high yielders underperformed in two of the three previous years as well. Say it ain't so, Mike. But he won't. In fact, he's one of the first to note that his dogs of the Dow--so named because high yields signal out-of-favor stocks--"have become too popular and the market has become too high" for the gambit to keep working. O'Higgins is now writing another book and next month will launch a mutual fund on a different scheme through Valley Forge Funds (888-600-4537). This one has him 100% in bonds...