A substantial number of smokers - 39 percent - favored a ban on smoking in public places.

The individual teams have been negotiating their own television deals, and a number of them are favoring cable.

But the numbers, and not just the oddsmakers, favor the Jets tonight.

The Verunans were doing a pretty good job of keeping them back, though, and the numbers favored them.

For one thing, the numbers of awarded bachelor's degrees in fields that rely on math still favor men.

Public opinion surveys routinely report that large numbers of people favor privatization.

A number of Republican health care experts also favor some sort of cost-effectiveness institute.

Pure numbers also favor California in the new Congress.

To be sure, the numbers do not favor Ms. Malanda.

The numbers still favor the strategy because running is far more effective in gaining a few yards than passing is.