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Plenty of teams voted in favor of banning the play, but there weren't enough to pass.
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
On issue after issue, Trump’s team seemed determined to break radically with the past, ushering in a very new (yet simultaneously very old) approach to American policy—one that rejected the postwar liberal international order in favor of a return to nineteenth-century great-power predation.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Those odds have shifted in favor of Lima, who is now -190, while Talbott is a +165 betting underdog.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Friends of the Park published a scathing report in 2018 that found resources — from park space to programs — continued to be unequally distributed across the city, failing Black and Latino neighborhoods in favor of whiter, richer ones.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
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Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
On issue after issue, Trump’s team seemed determined to break radically with the past, ushering in a very new (yet simultaneously very old) approach to American policy—one that rejected the postwar liberal international order in favor of a return to nineteenth-century great-power predation.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Those odds have shifted in favor of Lima, who is now -190, while Talbott is a +165 betting underdog.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Friends of the Park published a scathing report in 2018 that found resources — from park space to programs — continued to be unequally distributed across the city, failing Black and Latino neighborhoods in favor of whiter, richer ones.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
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“In favor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20favor. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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