Word: favorable
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...meetings held Aug. 6, Director of the Office of Career Services (OCS) William Wright-Swadel presented stories of students continuously deciding against graduate school or modestly paying jobs in favor of those that yield an immediate payoff...
Some members of the Faculty have argued againstlotteries and in favor of pre-registration, saidLewis. But the Core committee has yet to considerpre-registration as an option
This could skew the already tilting sex ratio even further in favor of boys. In the short term, such demographic shifts could cause enormous societal problems as men, for example, find it increasingly difficult to find women to marry. In the long term, however, both evolutionary and economic theories tell us that as girls become more scarce, they will become more highly valued, perhaps to the point at which more people will select for girls than against them...
...Russell 2000 index fund, which gathers the small-cap castoffs in a neat bundle. Or buy a fund based on the Wilshire 5000 index, which includes both large- and small-cap stocks. Both types are sold by fund companies like Vanguard and Fidelity. But do me a favor, and do one for yourself...
However, I cannot understand why someone would willingly ignore God's great gift of medical knowledge in favor of enduring a health condition that could easily be corrected. Russ Briggs' watching his two babies die in childbirth and then seeking medical help for his own back injury make me wonder about that kind of "faith." ROBERT H. RIES Florence...