Word: favored
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...great preponderance of democratic nations in the world have rejected this distorted form of representation in favor of proportional representation. All but two European nations use this system, as do South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other emerging democracies. Within these systems, every group is represented in proportion to the number of votes it receives, and thus every vote counts...
This approach was best captured by the Coming Out Day posters graphically celebrating various sexual practices. While we do not favor censoring postering on campus, we feel that these sexually explicit posters were inappropriate for an open campus that families and children wander through, and may have been counterproductive to causes the BGLTSA wishes to advance. It is clear that the strategy leaves many gay students feeling alienated from the BGLTSA and we are glad that a new group has stepped up to fill those students' needs...
...Privacy Protection Act passed last year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just about everybody ? except marketers and advertisers ? feel good, says TIME Digital editor Lev Grossman. "Everyone?s in favor of protecting children, and although these roadblocks might slow the progression of e-commerce in some imperceptible way, in the long run, it won?t make a difference...
Every council member present spoke strongly in favor of Cambridge's "going on record in support of the measure...
Robbie Feaver (pronounced favor) practices common law--the more common the better. Both cynic and self-deluding romantic, Feaver is Turow's most expansive creation. He has the needy personality of a Saul Bellow big shot and the clever mouth of an Elmore Leonard punk. Both traits come in handy when Feaver is arrested for paying off judges and decides (in about a minute and a half) that rather than go to prison, he will accept the Federal Government's deal and help cage the errant magistrates...