Word: favorable
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...Pepsi, the good news is that the commodity cycle eventually turns in your favor, and this time it is happening in a hurry. Corn prices were down more than 50% by November from their summer peak. Aluminum prices were down 20%, which makes can stock cheaper, and oil costs have fallen a third. That will help make international expansion less costly...
...Imagine, he said, how much more controversial Roe v. Wade would be now had the court issued the decision after more than half the states had held statewide elections on the issue. "Tuesday's rulings have made it much more costly for any court to reach a conclusion in favor of gay marriage," he said...
...agree to insure the money they routinely borrow from other banks, a practice that keeps their credit operations liquid? Ironically, the troubled non-Canadian institutions that received capital injections and loan guarantees in other countries now carry a government seal of approval that tilts the playing field in their favor when it comes to borrowing. That leaves Canada's big banks, including Scotiabank, TD Bank Financial Group, RBC Royal Bank and CIBC, at a competitive disadvantage. So the government acted to level the field, not to aid troubled banks. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...under police protection. Finally in 1998 Iran said it would neither "help nor hinder" Rushdie's execution, and Rushdie resumed his version of a normal life: there was no obvious security at last week's event. But that experience allowed him to make a strong indirect point in favor of the new Institute. Conservative clerics and talk show hosts have complained bitterly at the way that secular universities treat religion - sometimes justifiably. When scholars insist on seeing faith as a brute exercise in authoritarianism they are being almost as reductive as religious fundamentalists. But at its best, secular religious study...
...Death.” The language is simple, making repeated use of nature as an illustrative symbol. Gibran indeed relies heavily on lyrical analogies to convey his philosophical theories. For those among us unversed in reading pure philosophy, Gibran is thus doing us a favor. On child-rearing, for instance, he writes: “Your children are not your children / they come through you but not from you / and though they are with you yet they belong not to you / you are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”Although...