Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Commerce Committee tied, 21 to 21, on a proposal to extend price controls beyond their June 1981 expiration date. If the proposal comes to the floor, says Speaker Tip O'Neill, the vote will be "close." In fact, he adds that he would personally vote in favor of extending controls -though he normally lobbies the President's programs through the House...
...Council, in fact, considered grading reform as a possible solution when it reviewed alternatives last month, but rejected it in favor of transcript tampering. Perhaps they should think again...
...once they learn through amniocentesis that the fetus is male, they will opt for an abortion. Even though there is a fifty-fifty chance that the boy will not be a hemophiliac, medicine has had no way of telling whether those odds would be in the parents' favor...
Droney said that retrieving the coins did not involve granting any concessions to the men found guilty of the theft. "Their cases are coming before the Appellate Court for review in June, and the return of the coins may work in their favor," Droney added...
Alvin Streeter, an MIT graduate student, said yesterday that of 20 statements made at the meeting, 18 were in favor of divestiture. He said that over 1000 MIT students recently signed a petition favoring divestiture...