Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brand of perversity exists behind the desire to drop everything you've devoted your life to up until now in favor of something that you are uniquely unsuited for. What sort of person carries these unfulfilled passions inside of them? What strange influence leads some of these people to actually act them...
Miller points to the state's new standardized testing system, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), as one factor that leads parents to favor private schools...
...apply in Reformland. After all, Ventura has managed to become the party's leading officeholder while being a free trader--something that puts him at odds with a central tenet of the party's platform. Although the winner remains uncertain, so do the candidates. Beatty is said to favor running for the Democratic nomination; Weicker will decide in the next few weeks, but he told TIME, "There's so much on my agenda"; Perot has stepped back for now, yet no one can predict the moves of the mercurial Texan. Teamsters boss James P. Hoffa is thinking about the Veep...
...took years for Oregonians to settle the prickly question of whether doctors should be able to help people kill themselves. But a majority of the state's voters made clear--twice--that they favor physician-assisted suicides, at least in the limited cases of terminally ill people expected to live less than six months...
...George W. Bush and several other prominent GOP members. Speaking before California's Orange County Republicans, Forbes attacked Bush and Michigan Governor John Engler for failing to support a ballot initiative in Michigan creating a school voucher system. "Leadership means acting from principle," Forbes said. "I spoke out in favor of that referendum. Governor Bush has been silent." Throw in another mention of his longstanding criticism of Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist for saying he would support a state income tax, and the GOP leadership could be forgiven if they started making inquiries about a Reform Party membership card...