Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with 100 white civilians. The black civilian toll is far higher: almost 1,400 killed, including 238 curfew breakers and 342 civilians trapped in crossfire. But as guerrilla skills improve, the kill ratio has dropped in the past year, from 11 to 1 in the government's favor...
...constitution contains a section defining Soviet foreign policy, which it says is in favor of peace and "broad international cooperation." The constitution also proclaims that a "fully developed socialist society has been built in the U.S.S.R.," the nation having graduated from the earlier "dictatorship of the proletariat...
Liberal Strength. A growing number of Catholic theologians, priests and educators openly favor a much more permissive policy, however. The most sweeping American challenge yet to the hierarchy's view occurs with this month's publication of a 322-page sex report,* four years in preparation, that was commissioned by the board of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Its 1,000 members include virtually all the church's seminary and university religion teachers in the U.S. and Canada. Human Sexuality was written by a committee of two priests, one nun and two laymen, headed by Father...
...should do track the way it's done in tennis, where anyone can be a professional if he wants to, but amateurs and professionals can compete against each other. Maybe if Dwight's case gets enough attention, the IRS will do all of us a favor...
Specifically, the court ruled that a seniority system was not necessarily illegal even if its effect was to favor white males over others in bidding for promotions, protection from layoffs and similar benefits of years on the job. Justice Potter Stewart, expressing the majority's opinion, wrote that "bona fide" seniority systems with no overt racial underpinnings are not unlawful, even though such systems may in practice have the impact of discriminating against certain workers. As for discrimination that occurred prior to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the court ruled that "no person may be given retroactive...