Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This may not be enough, though. One professor, whose seminar is enormously popular, admits only one or two students without fathers famous enough to be known to him. Another dismisses the written applications in favor of geographical, income-level, racial, and educational balance. Many resort to a lottery past the initial application...
County officials hope the mistake will work in their favor, on the somewhat shaky grounds that the absurdity of Proposition .004 will defeat it. Taxcutter Wilson, feeling a bit as though he had been put through the mill, twice asked the courts to allow people to vote on what he meant and not on what he said, and was turned down both times by judges who reasoned that the people knew what they were signing...
Still, Congress seems to favor doing something for Chrysler, although $1 billion in tax refunds is distasteful to legislators who yearn to narrow the federal deficit. They may move instead for a loan guarantee. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long has pledged some aid for Chrysler. Says he: "It is better than letting the company fold. That would cost a lot of revenue and jobs." House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman is unenthusiastic but promises to expedite whatever bailout measures the Carter Administration proposes...
...Episcopalian as well as a pollster, reported on a national random survey of 512 Episcopal laity and 654 clergy showing that 63% of lay members still prefer the old prayer book. Only 23% are for the new. Episcopalians no longer active in the church are more heavily in favor of the 1928 book than active members, and champions of the old book feel much more strongly than those who like the new. Gallup's data also show a church divided against itself: an overwhelming 80% of the clergy favor the modern prayer book...
...more pertinent technical symbol of the American personality than the car. While the car has been a fine sign of the American impulse to dart hither and yon about the world, the mechanical cooler more neatly suggests the maturing national compulsion to flee the natural world in favor of a technological cocoon...