Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives it "broad discretion" to approve whatever projects it judges best suited to the nation's needs. Before exer cising this discretion, said the court, the FPC gave "mature consideration" to both plans and concluded-on the basis of the evidence-that each was "equally comprehensive." Weighing in favor of the private project was the fact that Congress has consistently refused to authorize a federal dam. Hence, the FPC "chose between a $400 million plan, which nobody was offering to undertake, and another comprehensive development for which private capital in the sum of $175 million is immediately available...
...POWER FIGHT, starring public-v. private-power champions, will have a showdown at AEC public hearings next month. Argument will center on safety of "fast-breeder" reactor plant being built by Detroit Edison-led private combine near Monroe, Mich. Public-power proponents want AEC to halt "unsafe" Monroe project, favor government development of "fast breeder," which is reactor type with most economic promise...
...majority of New York University students favor Stevenson. A recent poll shows 52.2 per cent for the Democratic candidate, 35.1 percent for Eisenhower, and 12.7 per cent undecided...
John P. Spiegel, lecturer in Social Relations, disagreed with a statement made by a member of the Lynn Parent-Teacher Association that most couples going steady "decide to...bypass college in favor of early marriage." Spiegel denied that any surveys had ever been made on the subject and claimed that "no one has ever demonstrated any harm" in the practice...
...report estimated that 65 per cent of Yale's undergraduates favor Eisenhower, although they were described as bipartisan in their ability to create demonstrations. They booed Vice-President Nixon last Thursday and they staged a "near riot" when Stevenson appeared there...