Word: favorered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Questions of casting and contracts fascinate and frustrate opera fans, who are usually well aware of hot new reputations in Europe. One reason may be that the company already had two fine American basses in James Morris and Paul Plishka; another is that Artistic Director James Levine tends to favor his own discoveries. There was also the perceived stigma of the City Opera; the two companies may be geographical neighbors, but they are artistic strangers. "There were lots of theories," notes Ramey. "One of them was that I was such a big star at City Opera that people wouldn...
...Brown students, who were generally in favor of the change, are also finding fault with the new schedule, Hall says. She says it is difficult for students to return to Brown only a day after the Labor Day weekend, because it is hard for them to leave their summer jobs...
...results were inconclusive," says Michael L. Goldenberg '88, a member of the Academic Committee that sponsored the referendum vote. The vote was 49 percent in favor of earlier exams, and 48 percent against earlier exams, from a pool of approximately 40 percent of the college, according...
Insurrectionist Rabuka, who denied last week that he was motivated by personal ambition, quickly showed his ethnic sympathies. The 15 men he appointed to a Council of Ministers included a large majority of native Fijians and are expected to follow policies favoring Fijians. Mara is Rabuka's new Foreign Minister, and will drop Bavadra's nonaligned stance in favor of a pro-Western foreign policy. Rabuka is highly popular and faces little dissent from within the army, whose troops are 95% ethnic Fijian...
Reagan's activism in favor of the contras raised questions about his role in soliciting funds from third countries, an indirect form of support that Congress explicitly prohibited in October 1985. In a curious charade designed to avoid embarrassing nations that are friendly to the U.S., it was agreed that they would be cited only by a number. But it was clear that "Country 2" was Saudi Arabia, which had, at McFarlane's prompting, contributed $1 million a month to the contras since May 1984. In February 1985, the President held a meeting in the Oval Office with King Fahd...