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Word: favority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have said that you do not favor radical change, but change over a long period of time--evolution, not revolution. Could you explain this more and say how you see this developing in the USSR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sakharov Speaks Out | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...letter from Joann R. Dorsch asks: "Will evolutionists ever give up and simply admit that God created us?" The answer is no. As long as there is so much evidence in favor of evolution and so little in favor of the Book of Genesis, we will search for man's origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...emphasized that he wants to restore his committee to its former eminence. His chief of staff, Bill Bader, is now recruiting arms-control experts to help the committee with SALT. Church requested two liberals for committee vacancies: Muskie and Tsongas. He got Muskie, but Tsongas was rejected in favor of a conservative Nebraska Democrat, Edward Zorinsky, who after much public vacillation voted against the Panama Canal treaties last year. "There's no mystery behind that selection," said Byrd. "Zorinsky got the most votes on the Steering Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cautious Senate Begins | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...that custody should go to the father as head of the family. Then, as ideas about the crucial role of the mother in child rearing took hold, courts switched to a presumption that the child belongs with the mother. Believers in joint custody now say that the prejudice in favor of mothers is built on outdated sex roles: women should stay at home, fathers are poor at nurturing and generally wish to be free of children after divorce. Today, however, about 60% of divorced women work outside the home, and the women's movement has encouraged many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: One Child, Two Homes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...poll results showed that a majority favored renaming the library no matter what, and the people who ran the poll have publicly stated that had the question not been worded so vaguely, the vote in favor of dropping Engelhard's name might well have been higher. Yet Calkins says, "I don't know whether I or other Corporation members will regard this poll as indicating the majority of students want the name changed and the money returned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Majority | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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