Word: favored
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While union leadership is in favor of the contract and membership is expected to ratify it, many on campus are upset at the slow timetable of wage increases...
Professors Cornel West and William Julius Wilson spoke in favor of progressive political movements last night at the Hasty Pudding Theater. They were greeted with nods and comments of approval from the audience...
...voted for the helping-hand and the finger-pointer. But right now America is not even sure that there is a problem. There are certainly issues--health, education, social security, guns, the environment, social inequality--but none of these problems have as yet acquired the requisite electoral urgency to favor the liberal or the extremist. The moderate centrist is likely to prevail--although where that center will fall among Albert Gore Jr. '69, Bill Bradley and Bush remains open...
Seton said he was convinced the referendum would pass because of the strong arguments in its favor, echoing one of Davis' earlier criticisms...
Bush may be right about the American people. In 1992 voters threw his father out of office in favor of a Democrat with a potent intellect and an encyclopedic command of everything from GATT to the gap in wages. But Americans learned that Bill Clinton has far less command over his character, and that may have left them with a yearning for a less complicated President. In Texas, Bush is known as a skilled manager and a confident, crisp decision maker. He has pursued, for the most part, simple, understandable policy goals and has stuck to his agenda with remarkable...