Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Domestically, Wright has sided with the highway lobby and opposed help for mass transit in the cities. He supports the widely criticized depletion allowance for "small" oil companies, but not for the majors. He voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding discrimination in public accommodations, but in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-one of the foundation stones of Candidate Jimmy Carter's victory...
...headline services and could provide more depth and nuance. The argument has not been put to the test because the networks have been unable to persuade local affiliates to extend network news to 45 minutes or an hour. But what they do with the time already available does not favor their case. Their newscasts regularly sag, at about the two-thirds mark, into some forgettable feature. Why the evening's main story does not instead get that extra moment of rounding out has a lot to do with the networks' obsession with pace, variety and the eye appeal...
...membership is slightly weighted in favor of the Faculty by an eight-to-six margin. It can deny students the right to legal counsel at its hearings and can admit hearsay evidence against students. CRR cases are appealed to the CRR itself, and under certain types of expulsion, students can only be re-admitted through application to the committee. Students can also be brought before the CRR for offenses vaguely defined as "obstructing the normal processes of the University...
Espionage 301. Honors seminar for students of superior ability and interest in the theory and practice of buying the favor of U.S. Congressmen and other high officials. Lecture and laboratory...
...Gilmore waits out the next round, book, magazine and television offers keep flooding in. Gilmore has fired his first agent, Dennis Boaz, who until recently was also his lawyer, in favor of his uncle, Vern Damico. Damico listened to a $5,000 bid from the National Enquirer, a $100,000 bid from David Susskind, and then accepted a more elaborate contract from Los Angeles Photographer and Entrepreneur Lawrence Schiller. For a $100,000 down payment, plus royalties, Schiller has arranged a package deal that includes a TV dramatization of Gilmore's life and death for ABC's Movie...