Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circumstances being what they are, it is probably unrealistic to expect that Congressional passage of the new mandatory retirement laws can be avoided. Such a bill could potentially have its most serious impact on the academic job market and higher education. Thus, Harvard must take a firm stand in favor of proposed amendments to the bill that would exempt tenured college faculty from the 70-year minimum mandatory retirement age. University-level academics are among those jobholders who can be expected to continue to work if the unamended bill is approved. And, as Graduate School Dean Edward L. Keenan...
Half an hour after the scheduled start of yesterday's J.V. Soccer match between Harvard and Tufts, neither referee had arrived. Two hours later, as the game ended with the score 4-2 in favor of Harvard, Tufts wished a referee had never come...
...inflation, Gelbard decreed stringent wage and price controls. But his policies contributed to the country's near economic collapse, precipitating the 1976 coup that overthrew Isabel. Said Gelbard of Argentine business: "There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound to break them...
...Lance affair: "Once again the American press seems to be engaged in 'breaking' a President... So I tell my British friends that the real stability of American government is in our public sense of constitutional morality, and that the press is doing the Carter presidency a favor," etc. Safire, however, then prints the reply of an English friend: "I would be more inclined to believe you if you chaps didn't seem to relish...
...there anything wrong with such goodhearted greed, openly pursued? Some argue in Billy's favor that he never sought his celebrity (not quite true), but is now obeying Adam Smith's "invisible hand" by selling the public what it wants for as long as it will pay. Tourist hordes made Billy give up his house in Plains, besieged him in his office and drove him from his beloved filling station; after such indignities, why shouldn't he become undignified himself, and get well paid for it? No one imagines for a second that Billy (whose political hero...