Word: favority
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...This spring, the UC organized an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform. Of the 3,467 students who participated, 84 percent voted in favor of the UC's proposal. Unlike the Verba report, the UC did not endorse a one-month term in the middle of the year...
...group of senior aides to Bob Riley, who had just narrowly defeated Siegelman in a bitterly contested election for governor. Though Republican Riley, a former Congressman, initially found himself behind by several thousand votes, he had pulled ahead at the last minute when disputed ballots were tallied in his favor. After the abrupt vote turnaround, Siegelman sought a recount. The Simpson affidavit says the conference call focused on how the Riley campaign could get Siegelman to withdraw his challenge...
...favor changing the 14th amendment of the constitution so that the newborns of illegal aliens do not automatically become U S citizens? -Raymond Ogilvie, Santa Maria, Calif.I have co-sponsored legislation that says that children born to illegal aliens cannot have automatic citizenship. And actually, I don't think our bill violates the 14th amendment, which dealt specifically with the children of slaves, not with illegal aliens like we have now. There's a case to be made, and I would like to have it tested in the courts...
...offer a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegals currently in the country. A reporter asks, What would you do about them? Make them get in the back of the line. Would they have to leave the country to do that? Mumble mumble evasion. Would you be in favor of kicking them out? Oh, no, not that. Then what would you actually favor? "I'm not going to lay down a posture different from the others being considered." Interesting: Romney takes postures, not positions...
...Bush, 83, gave the keynote address, and praised Graham for sparking a moral awakening in the U.S. and later, in communist countries. Graham, along with Pope John Paul, "helped tip the balance of history in freedom's favor." Bush also thanked Graham for ministering to four generations of his own family, starting with his mother and continuing through to his children and grandchildren. "Billy guided our kids, including our daughter Doro and the President, through their own spiritual journeys." Graham, said Bush, "is a spiritual gift to all of us," briefly choking up as he spoke...