Word: favority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business associate handles the "gimmes," short putts that are often conceded by an opponent, can help you understand someone's personality. McCormack says that business people who assume a putt is a gimme -- even when it is 6 ft. away from the hole -- will never ask for a favor. They expect...
...only did Lee not pursue the facts himself, he didn't even give anyone else the opportunity. Although Lee called for someone to speak in favor of an amendment that would withhold the council's endorsement of ROTC until it abandoned its anti-gay bias, he allowed a speaker opposed to the amendment to use all of the time allotted for debate. "I should have told him that he was out of order...I wasn't listening," said Lee. "Clearly it was an error on my part...
Later this week, it appeared that the activists and the council might agree on the future of the debate: both sides seemed to favor tabling the ROTC issue until next year, when it can be given more extensive consideration. Just in time to salvage the poorly publicized Suzanne Vega concert, the council may now be able to consider its final round of in-house business in political peace and quiet...
...larger questions raised by the events of recent weeks may not simply be tabled until next year. Although the ROTC debate is now being downplayed in favor of a more friendly motion to postpone further discussion, activists say questions about the council's future treatment of the issue cannot be sidestepped as easily...
...vocal minority of anti-militarists used the constitutionality question to force the council's hand on the ROTC issue. But their opposition to ROTC is not restricted to discrimination, as shown by their near-riot after the debate was settled in their favor. Clearly, they agree with the democratic process only when it serves their purposes. The council was all too willing to accommodate their selective interests...