Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrator, ultimately, the committee will attempt to synthesize the task forces' recommendations. Rosovsky stresses that the committee will work by consensus. "It's not a matter of a 7-6 Supreme Court decision," he says. "In the last analysis, one opinion will find a certain amount of favor...
...task force has produced a plethora of both feasible and unfeasible ideas. The group recently voted unanimously in favor of four-year Houses, even though it's highly unlikely that the four-year proposal will be adopted. However, there have been numerous more practical suggestions. After months of tangling with the housing issue, the committee advanced to its more specific task and began to study the particular problems confronting the different classes...
...What do you mean?" Browning snapped, and then, realizing what he had done, tried to withdraw the question. But Bailey was on his feet demanding that his client be allowed to answer, and Judge Carter ruled in his favor. Patty then proceeded to tell the startled jury, which had been shielded from the facts, about the bombing at San Simeon, adding that "my parents received a letter threatening my life if I took the witness stand, and they wanted a quarter of a million dollars put into the Bill and Emily Harris Defense Fund...
Nearly half of the women who undergo radical surgery for breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body die within the next five years. Now the odds may soon shift sharply in favor of these cancer victims. Last week Italian doctors reported a new postoperative program of drug treatment that could increase the chances of survival from breast cancer as much as fivefold...
...society's grandest dame, and notices that her "dead-black hair is not entirely her own." He catches a party glimpse of John Jacob Astor III, "slow but agreeable, and much too red in the face." Wherever he goes, Schuyler is publicly deferential, as befits an aging favor seeker. Privately, this self-described "effete Parisian" fills his journal with barbed, often uproarious observations on this "vigorous, ugly, turbulent realm...