Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal, sophomore tutorials in elite majors would be open to all, and selection by the limited concentrations would occur before junior year. The second alternative would open enrollment to all, using severe requirements to encourage a Darwinian type of natural selection. As Martin admits, there are valid arguments in favor of both proposals--and in favor of no changes--and the Faculty, which in this case must make the final decision, will undoubtedly gear itself up for a heated dispute...
Democrats were hoping that Ray had been sexually bipartisan. Though she did seem to favor the majority party, it was widely reported that one of the Senators with whom she was involved was a prominent Republican. But the Chicago Tribune's sensational report last week that she had tapes of her liaisons with 13 Congressmen and two Senators-recorded on a voice-activated machine secreted under her well-used bed-was incorrect...
Luxury cars, including Cadillacs, Lincolns and Chrysler New Yorkers, are selling briskly. And now that gasoline prices have leveled off, at least temporarily, some full-size models, among them the $6,500 Buick Electra, are regaining favor with family buyers. But the big winners so far are the fancier compacts and small, sporty cars that promise buyers both economy and plenty of options and pizazz...
...punished according to the seriousness of their offenses; if mitigating circumstances were strong enough, a cadet could be let off with no punishment at all. To be put into effect, the reform authorizing discretionary punishment needed to be approved by two-thirds of the cadets; only 54% voted in favor last spring...
More significant than any external threat-real or imagined-to the Burnham regime is the narrow, racially divided base upon which his "cooperative republic" tries to stand. Burnham consolidated his power through elections that were gimmicked in favor of the 40% of Guyana's 800,000 population who are black; Marxist Jagan and his P.P.P. draw much of their strength from the resentments of the 52% that is East Indian (the remainder are native peoples, known locally as Amerindians). The black P.N.C. retains a relative monopoly on patronage, and the laboring Indian majority believes Burnham's socialism...