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Word: favority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exchange four years ago to become a professional blackjack player. He is good. Too good for the casinos to handle. Uston is known as a "counter," because he can keep track of the cards so well that he can determine if those remaining will tip the odds in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-21 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...some of them to distraction. Motorist George Maynard, feeling the slogan confined him to the right lane, went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1977 with his refusal to pay a $75 fine for blotting out the offending words on his plates. The court ruled in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Live Free or Don't | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Carter has appointed thus far, and who compose a majority on the board, favor restoring the T.V.A. to its original role. Asked if he would continue to lead the agency in a new direction, David Freeman said no, that he would restore the T.V.A.'s traditional role as a laboratory for the testing of new ideas. Freeman has not hesitated to use the broad authority granted directors in the 1933 Act to carry out his goals...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Power for the People | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...force, did so on August 10. Roosevelt was cheered. Meanwhile CIA experts had examined the Iranian constitution and decided on the shape of the coup--Mossadeq was to be dismissed by Imperial decree and replaced by Zahedi while a force recruited for the CIA by General Schwarzkopf demonstrated in favor of the Shah's return...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA in Iran | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

...parents want their daughters to take up sports and exercise, almost as many as favor physical activity for their sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Running Battle | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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