Word: favors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Issues such as lack of community, because of students' tendency to ignore the social in favor of the academic, and issues of financing--that is, the problem of insufficient funds even in the face of mammoth endowments--are other problems common to all the schools...
...very much in favor of cleaning up the arrangements so the University would respect us and young people would not spoil their chance with a bad party policy," Sears said...
Dole actually brings some advantages to this issue. Husband Bob has been a strong voice in favor of military action, and she came out in support of the air strikes right away. In a speech in Phoenix, Ariz., on Friday, she was able to remind her audience that as a former Red Cross chief, she has been to Rwanda, been to Bosnia, knows what ethnic cleansing is all about. "I would not back down, and I would take no options off the table," she told TIME on Friday. "We should continue the air campaign and expand the list of targets...
...OVER CASTING AGENTS: Getting auditions depends on currying favor with casting pros, who sift through thousands of head shots and videotapes. "I narrowed the field down to 20 girls, and Julia's natural, soulful quality stood out," says Francine Maisler, who cast Before Women Had Wings. Disney's casting exec Marcia Ross, who saw nearly 200 actresses for the 10 Things role, remarks, "You can see it onscreen--she projects an intelligent depth, she's not girlish, and she'll easily grow into adult roles...
...available means of funding a Harvard education. Instead of that route, ROTC students have chosen to commit themselves to the values of self-sacrifice, duty and devotion to country. They are the finest examples of good citizenship that this campus has to offer. We would only do ourselves a favor by allowing these cadets to honor the Yard with their official presence...