Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank holds its annual stockholder's meeting next Tuesday. An alumna representing Radcliffe will vote then in favor of a resolution calling for the bank to refrain from making new loans to South Africa and renewing old ones. A similar resolution last year garnered only about 5 per cent of the vote. Toman said...
...Huskies matched three of those four runs, though, capitalizing on Stewart's inability to locate home plate. The junior righthander yielded only one hit, but he hit one batter and walked six others before coach Alex Nahigian yanked him in favor of southpaw Paul McOsker midway through the third inning...
Foreign students are sought as employees by the CIA but in a very different capacity--to Americans. They are recruited as agents who might at some future date supply information to the U.S. or influence national policy in it favor. For a long period, this infinitely more troublesome problem has been ignored by the American universities and public. The historyol this recruitment is fascinating. It originated in the 1930s at Annapolis and West Point with foreign military cadets. In 1948 the little-known Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was founded--the forerunner of the CIA's clandestine services ('dirty tricks...
...only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman. David was a herdsman. I, too, was commissioned for prophethood while I grazed my family's cattle...
With six weeks of campaigning to go for 282 seats in the next, enlarged House of Commons,* a new Gallup poll had the Liberals and the Tories running in a dead heat, each with 41% of the popular favor. Since the Liberals' support is disproportionately concentrated in Quebec, this suggested that the Tories would enjoy a thin overall margin in the race for parliamentary seats, although an unusually high percentage of voters remain undecided. Just as the Liberals are expected to sweep Quebec, the Tories are overwhelmingly dominant in the Western provinces. Thus the election will probably...