Word: favors
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...refused to take Deeds head-on. Even when Deeds tried to make an issue of McDonnell's master's thesis, the Republican skillfully deflected the attack. In a 1989 thesis for Regent University, McDonnell had argued that working women were "detrimental" to family and that the government should favor married couples over "homosexuals or fornicators." McDonnell fought back, saying he's changed his views since writing the 20-year-old document. He began featuring his three daughters, one of them an Iraq war veteran, in his commercials and made a big push with women's events. And in the latest...
...Days After In a lot of ways, the deck was stacked in favor of the Allies. They had the advantage in numbers in every category - land, sea and air - while the Germans were badly depleted by the war on the Eastern front. The Germans were also hamstrung by their unbelievably byzantine and incoherent command structure - Untersturmführers and Obergruppenführers are thick on the ground in D-Day - which had a delusional Hitler at its apex...
...Anne Carroll Ingersoll pulled the Crimson ahead, 19-18. Cornell called a time-out to regroup, but during the next play, Wu made a diving save that kept the ball alive and led to a kill by Comrie. From there, the momentum completely shifted in Harvard’s favor...
...contest was particularly close—the score was tied 25 times—during the third and fifth sets. The Lions matched Harvard’s intensity in the third set and were able to shift the momentum in their favor. When the score was tied at 18, Columbia generated...
With the score 14-0 in the home team’s favor, Dartmouth finally put together a run to get into scoring position but failed to execute. Big Green quarterback Connor Kempe threw a pass that was intercepted by Harvard senior defensive back Ryan Barnes on the Crimson 18-yard line...