Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private industry in a country with serious human rights problems, that would get a negative vote. But if the water is going to a slum area, where people now have to walk two miles to carry water by bucket, that's entirely different. We might very well favor such a loan...
Many of Iowa's 99 county auditors have run up against similar problems and have recommended that the dog tax be abolished. Debate on such a bill is expected to start shortly in the Iowa legislature. Some local farmers like Swenka, who might be expected to favor abolishing the tax, are inclined to take the opposite view. Reason: the dog tax finances replacement of livestock killed by wild dogs and other predators...
...descriptions of Mardi Gras are fascinating, prompting one to try to envision the scene, and aided by photographs, the task is easier. But to imagine the New Orleans burgher, dressed in the black tuxedo, drink in hand, speaking out in favor of white-minority rule in South Africa, and before that, hearing the blond-haired fellow referring to the black men dressed in slave garb as monkeys, is much more difficult for me, as I sit in my Winthrop House room, isolated from the careless ways of the very rich, as well as the desperate struggles of the very poor...
...what it seems to come down to over and over again is that EVERYBODY gets psyched to play hockey against Harvard, but the favor is not always returned...
...point fingers at someone or something when things don't go as planned, and though the Harvard hockey season has gone anything but smoothly this year, I keep finding my finger pointing straight up, to that Great Goal Judge In The Sky, and asking "Why, God? Why must you favor the Canadians all the time? Why must the guys in the tie-dyed shirts and boat sneakers play over their heads against...