Word: favored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show of goodwill, Judith Palfrey presented the McCarthys of Pforzheimer with T-shirts that said "PfAdams" and James McCarthy returned the favor with Pforzheimer House pins for their colleagues from the River...
Marcus turned down an offer of tenure at Stanford in favor of Harvard's. He said the decision between the two came down to intangibles while he was visiting Cambridge recently...
Marcus cited the openness of communication, the growth initiatives, his positive experiences with the University and the overall excellence of the department as factors in Harvard's favor...
...past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they say, such gambling is inherently a regressive tax on the poor, whose comparitive desperation may tempt them to fritter away precious funds for the slim chance of cashing in. "The anti...
...Governor's Council, an elected body in charge of approving the governor's judicial nominations, voted 6-3 in favor of Marshall. The margin was unchanged from the councilors' stated positions of about two weeks ago, when Marshall was accused of having an anti-Catholic bias and of being unqualified...