Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn introduced by the Renaissance evidently was inevitable historically. The Middle Ages had come to a natural end by exhaustion, becoming an intolerable despotic repression of man's physical nature in favor of the spiritual one. Then, however, we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal. This new way of thinking, which had imposed on us its guidance, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man nor did it see any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous...
Carter has said he will veto the tax credit in favor of the College Opportunity Act, which expands existing Federal aid programs. The plan, similar to one Carter presented to Congress last fall, increases from $16,000 to $25,000 the maximum family income level for which the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) would be available, and boosts the maximum grant at each income level. The plan also adds more funds to the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), which is distributed to students by individual colleges, and to the College Work Study Program, which provides federally-subsidized jobs for college...
...April 1975, the NLRB heard the case and ruled in favor of the union. The hospital appealed the case to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, which supported the board's decision, and then Beth Israel appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which held oral hearings in late April...
...funds. Also, the difference in the means of selecting the minority representatives stipulated in the two constitutions means the cases may not be comparable. "Only in the most obscure way does it relate to Bakke. And even if it does relate to Bakke, that decision was more in our favor...
Christine is long past her "hippie stage." At the University of Redlands, where she studied history and music, she was rushed by a sorority that plundered fraternity houses for jockey shorts. But she ducked the sisterhood in favor of serious music and a semester studying in Salzburg. She frankly sees the exposure of Miss America as a means of deliverance from the grueling jobs that helped her work her way through school. "I want to be with a major symphony," Christine declares. "Cocktail waitressing isn't going to get me there...