Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing you, though, to inquire about your studies, but rather to request a favor. This afternoon, ya see, it'll be time once more to play football, Harvard-Colgate football, and just for a change, do you think you could give us a little...
...decision in favor of Bakke would open the door to a multitude of lawsuits by students who believe they have been wronged by admissions officers who use criteria other than grades and test scores. Such a decision would discourage admissions committees from examining the roles that the students they select will play in a multi-racial society in need of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. Even if it would not dissuade institutions from seeking qualified minority students, a decision for Bakke would deprive universities of the recruiting benefits that result from minority admissions programs, which for many minority...
...submitted in early September by the residents of Observatory Hill, who requested that the Harvard property in that area be down-zoned to leave the University with less than one-seventh of the building space it now owns. Five of the six members of the Cambridge Planning Board favored such a change in the zoning map at their meeting last week, although it has not yet submitted a formal recommendation to the Council. City councilors have also said they would favor some form of down-zoning...
...roller coaster-dropping all the way down to zero in one month, soaring to an annual rate of almost 20% in another. In the past few months, the money supply has been swelling at such a fevered rate as to cause anxiety even among powerful congressional Democrats, who usually favor an easy-money policy...
...been accepted to Ivy League schools early enough so that they did not apply to any other schools just to get "an admission ticket." These colleges' applicant pools therefore did not include a number of students who would, if accepted, have rejected the college's admission offer in favor of any Ivy League school...