Word: favorered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officially, Question Five reads: "Shall the Representatives from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress and the President of the United States to achieve peace in the Middle East by: demanding that Israel end its violations of Palestinian human rights and its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; stopping all expenditures of U.S. taxpayers' money for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; and favoring the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with peace for all in the region including Israel...
Harvard has the legal right to appeal this decision. But it has no moral reason left. In the past, the University argued in favor of fairness; now the election has been deemed fair. Yet Harvard is still fighting...
...after the ruling came out, the administration called it "unjudicial." Now that the University can no longer challenge the union victory on the grounds of fairness, it is attacking the deliverer of justice. This shows what critics suspected all along--that Harvard's arguments in favor of fairness were simply a veiled attempt to defeat the union...
...Ecotopians are not like you and me. They favor fanciful hats and eccentric leggings, all made from natural materials. They work only 20 hours a week, smoke marijuana legally, like to give one another back rubs and reject conspicuous consumption. What they really care about is their land, their air, their water and one another, all of which they regard with an almost obsessive passion...
...presence, say many political observers, his legions of adherents among Haiti's disenfranchised youth would probably turn to more violent and extremist movements. Already the country is bristling with talk of total revolution from the bottom up. Aristide and his supporters say they are actually a modifying influence and favor only "active nonviolence." The priest's political and religious philosophy is a homegrown variant of liberation theology, which advocates grass-roots social reform and a "people's church," with a lesser role for the ecclesiastical hierarchy...