Word: favorable
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Last week, a team of three education experts released a report announcing the exam is an inaccurate indicator of teaching ability and should be scrapped in favor of something better. The analysts worked only with the scores of the April and June administrations of the test, since the State Board of Education, with the oversight and prompting of Cellucci, has refused to release copies of the actual test questions. (Education program heads were invited to see, but not take or study, the test under prison-like conditions earlier this fall. No writing utensils were allowed in the room...
...McKinsey recruiters at the Office of Career Services will be the first ones to tell you just how many of last year's consultants made the B-School cut. Just as much as we might exploit them for their opportunities, resources and salaries, they will undoubtedly return the favor...
...Harvard is very much in favor of a stronganti-sweatshop policy for the Ivy League," hesaid. "It might be we just need to get somethinggoing now...let's do what we can and work on thedetails as we go ahead...
...President commented in favor of the idea this week. "She and I both would like to continue to be useful in public affairs when we leave office," he told reporters. The remark would have gotten Clinton in hot water just a few years ago. But what stands out now is not that Hillary was never elected, but that far from leaving office, she seems more than ready to enter it. Indeed, though Bill's stained days in the White House are nearly through, Hillary could be back someday. Supposing the Clintons stay married, would voters really agree to put Bill...
Council members in favor of the referendum talked about regaining the respect of students by placing the decision in their hands...