Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council voted in favor of creating a task force to "end the practice of allowing a student to change rooms solely because she or he is uncomfortable with the sexual orientation of her or his roommate before making a sincere attempt to live with that person...
Another liberal-arts ideal is "Know thy world," which is why, even as I prize the education I received there, I favor admitting women. Being all male hasn't always been easy for Wabash--especially after it voted down co-education in 1992. Right-wing think tanks, hoping to adopt the college as a mascot, mounted a nasty campaign to roll back the school's long history of multicultural studies, while hard-core feminists stormed the campus with politically correct, male-bashing lectures like "Athletes as Rapists...
...plagued by songs which are too slow and too soft. Instead of featuring pounding beats and passionate, driving guitar chords, the tracks on this album are dominated by vocals that are uninteresting and with lyrics which are average at best. The guitar, drums and bass are mixed low in favor of these vocals, which are often made worse by harmonizing more vocals over the original ones. Some tracks from Black on Black, like "Dangerous" and "Sweat," begin promisingly with good guitar intros, but ultimately deteriorate into the predictability and mediocrity of the rest of the album...
...football hasn't always been willing to return the favor. Although he shaved down many of his academic goals to play, he spent his first three years as the second-string quarterback...
...become a sort of big divide," says Stanley Hoffmann, who has taught at Harvard for 45 years and--like many who favor the historical or institutional approach--may soon retire...