Word: favorable
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Healy has received a lot of criticism from citycouncilors and local media in the past few years,alleging inappropriate hiring procedures,including filling positions without appropriatelyposting them, and failing to hire minorityapplicants in favor of white applicants whosequalifications were sometimes less impressive...
Players now must face the reality of not being paid until the dispute is settled at the bargaining table. Until now, they had been holding out hope that a verdict in their favor would pressure the owners to soften their stance and come to the table with a better offer...
Legislators fear the Social Security Trust Fund will be depleted by 2032. To save Social Security, many favor privatizing the system and putting the money into the stock market and other financial markets...
...hunter, I know that the place in a forest to find the largest concentration of all manner of critters is in the regrowth that occurs in burns and clear-cuts. Inasmuch as we seldom let fire do its work in the forest, we are probably doing diversity a favor by selective logging and clear-cutting! DALE ROSS Ashland...
...good reason. The movie, which was to be directed by FRED SCHEPISI and to co-star Travolta's wife KELLY PRESTON, has hit stormy water. After two years of preproduction, Columbia and Schepisi were unable to agree on a script. No one's talking, but Schepisi was apparently in favor of the faithful-to-the-book version turned in by LAURA JONES, who has adapted several books for film, including Portrait of a Lady and A Thousand Acres. Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects--the main character is an overweight lummox who moves to bleakest Newfoundland...