Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to gain the favor of foreign investors and bankers, the Peronist government found itself faced with the urgent tasks of curbing inflation, increasing productivity and guaranteeing stability. The two essential steps needed to bring about these changes were a drastic austerity plan and abolition of the right to strike, steps which were antithetical to the basic populism of the Peronists. Only a military regime could bring about the "guarantees and stability" needed to pacify foreign creditors...
...statement that Boston University faculty, stars and incompetents alike, favor John Silber's dismissal...
...April 26] is false. Whether I qualify as incompetent or star, I am, like many Boston University faculty, strongly in favor of continuing Silber, and against dissident deans and faculty, most of whom have opposed and obstructed every effort to improve the quality of Boston University...
...case is so outstandingly strong," she says. "If fair is fair, they should certainly decide it in our favor...
STILL, HISTORICAL PRECISION and a thorough consideration of where the evidence is coming from give Mack's work strength. In his preface, Mack says he undertook the Lawrence project with a prejudice in favor of a much more psycho-analytical explanation of his subject; but the more he discovered the more he became convinced, he writes, that Lawrence's unusual place in history was of central importance. E.M. Forster wrote about Lawrence that in an age of faith he might have become a monk, or at least a holy crusader who continued to believe in his lost cause...