Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Creative people like artists, playwrights, novelists and writers in other forms of fiction were excluded in favor of bank presidents and politicians. But are they not also leaders in our society...
...that if they observe price guidelines, rising costs will cut into their profits. "I've talked with a lot of businessmen, and I have yet to find one who has a good word to say for [guidelines]," says an executive of Boise Cascade. But a minority are in favor. "Businessmen are now willing to get on the sidelines and help make Government economic policy work," says James Kerley, executive vice president of Monsanto...
...university admissions programs that favor minority applicants violate the civil rights of whites? The "reverse discrimination" question came before the Supreme Court two years ago in the case of Marco DeFunis, who had sued the University of Washington Law School for barring him while accepting a minority student with lower test scores than his. But DeFunis, who had been admitted by order of a lower court, had nearly finished his studies by the time his case reached the Supreme Court, and so the Justices declined to make a ruling. Since then several similar cases have come before the lower courts...
...Midwest regional office has resigned in protest against what he calls the report's distortion. Said Lindstrom: "We were told beforehand by Washington that the purpose of the study was to show desegregation worked." Advisory committees in Illinois and Michigan have also denounced the report as biased in favor of good news...
...plot has to do with the gentle Esclarmonde's efforts to win her elusive beloved, the French knight Roland. Her plans are hampered by geography and a few other cumbersome details: the old Emperor, who abdicated in Esclarmonde's favor, conferred his wizardry powers upon her on condition that she remain veiled to all men until a suitable warrior consort is found...