Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation of which Thomas Jefferson took a dim view. Practitioners of organized religion get special rates on transport, entertainment and in many other areas, which amounts to a subsidy from taxpayers. And now we have Dirksen, the Charles Laughton of the Senate, crusading to amend the Constitution in favor of school prayer...
...risen from about 52% to 80%. During 1965, the Republic of Viet Nam armed forces and its allies killed 36,000 of the enemy at a cost of approximately 12,000 friendly killed-and 90% of these were Vietnamese. During recent months, this 3-to-1 ratio in favor of the allies has risen significantly, and in some weeks has been as high...
...Love had felt any need for medical support, he got it the day before he signed. Of 40,089 U.S. physicians who answered a poll by Modern Medicine, 87% favor liberalizing the abortion laws-including 49% of the Roman Catholics...
...desrcibes his Breakthrough in an unmistakably religious manner, "It was as if I was in a trance. My vision blurred and suddenly I could see the entire page in one glance. It was induced by rhythmic repetition over the same page many times." The term has been dropped, in favor of a more gradual description of success, because it was not conducive to profit making. "We have been instructed not to talk about it much anymore. Too often it is not substantial and students return to their old speeds. Also, it makes the course too much...
...city official, "We're ready to put a lot of money in there," and Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the three neighborhoods for which New Yorks has applied for Model Cities funds. In addition, Lindsay and such top aides as Mitchell Sviridoff, head of the Human Resources Administration, favor the kind of local autonomy that Kennedy wants to see. Says Sviridoff, "Things should be organized out there, planned out there, and run out there...