The metaphor of debts of gratitude, which a beneficiary pays to a benefactor by returning a favor, dates back centuries, at least in the Anglophone linguistic tradition (Brandt 1964: 386); and philosophers and writers throughout history have condemned acts and omissions of ingratitude as among the most vicious of wrongs.
Paleontologists looking for answers in skeletons and anatomy have favored a date just before or a little after the Cretaceous extinction.
Teachers routinely demand sexual favors, date rape is common, and a majority of girls are discouraged from pursuing competitive sports or fields like science and mathematics.
Archaeologists believe it was about 50,000 years ago, since no modern human remains older than this have yet been found outside of Africa, but geneticists have long favored much earlier dates.
This favored tax status dates back to a time when (unlike today) state and local workers weren't well paid and received relatively small pensions.
This favored ancient trail dates back 1000 years to when the Bishop of Le Puy initiated a Christian pilgrimage route that now attracts some 15,000 hikers each year.
Yet as we shall see, variables do not always fluctuate synchronously consider the behavior of employment versus output across recent business cycles an observation that favors the date-then-combine approach if interest is tilted toward constructing a single series of turning points.
Lower court rulings on the matter have mostly favored Aereo to date.
But proponents, including Peter McGowan, the Islip supervisor, said they favored the April date because it would give the town enough time to draw up districts and withstand any potential legal challenges and the board could be elected by districts in the November 2007 election.
In some instances this has resulted in considerably different date estimates; for example, Raaum et al. [ 29] recently dated the Cercopithecoidea-Hominoidea split at 23 MYA, whilst Yoder and Yang [ 27] and Steiper and Young [ 26] favored an older date of 30-40 MYA.
Hell's Kitchen, the identity favored by longtime residents, dates to the 1800s, when the neighborhood began its century-plus run as a hotbed of gang violence and squalor.
