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Word: favority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocates are truly in favor of "equality of rights not to be denied by government on the basis of sex," why is it that I, a highly educated white male and disabled veteran, cannot get a job, even with the Federal Government, because of female pressure groups and their support of quota systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1977 | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Some mobsters have tried to win Galante's favor by turning over their businesses to him at distress-sale prices. In one deal, he scooped up the betting and loan-shark rackets in Pennsylvania Station, which net at least $500,000 a year. Other mobsters, including some nominally under Dellacroce, sold Galante a number of Manhattan sweatshops in which black and Hispanic women, many working at less than $3 an hour (the union scale is $4.81), stitch garments that are sold in legitimate clothing stores across the country. Authorities

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Davis's grand salami made the score 4-1 in favor of the Bulldogs, and set the stage for some Harvard heroics by some unlikely Harvard heroes. Peter Bannish came on for McOsker in the sixth, and his one-hit scoreless stint kept Yale at bay and eventually earned him his first win of the season...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Split Yale Twinbill | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...Seamus P. Malin '62, director of financial aid, said yesterday the number of students who decline places here in favor of schools that offer merit-based financial aid seems to have increased in recent years...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Even in Ivory Towers, Money Talks | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

...least five admitted applicants this year turned down places at Harvard in favor of Washington University in St. Louis, which offers full scholarships to its top ten applicants...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Even in Ivory Towers, Money Talks | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

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