Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if the coffee is free, some employees prefer to go out for coffee, just to get out of the office. "I know I duck out twice a day," says a sympathetic boss in Dallas, "and I don't even drink coffee." Nevertheless, most companies who have polled their workers report that employees would rather have coffee in the office than fight jammed elevators and drugstores once or twice a day. Many executives even boast of serving better coffee than the cafe across the street. Says Vergil Finnell. a San Francisco coffee caterer: "A lot of companies now offer...
...While I am definitely of the older generation and would prefer colonial style in my own house, the younger generation leans naturally towards the contemporary. Since they are going to grow up with it, their preferences should be given consideration, Tarbell added...
...different directions at once, and swiftly outrunning the abstract-expressionist formula. The variety of the paintings shown here-from De Kooning's gustiness to Guston's coolness-is in itself a strong indication of the movement's vitality. And even the uncaring observer will somehow prefer one picture lo another, which proves that they do project certain qualities-whether ugly or beautiful. None is a mere nothing...
...ever before-even when it means going as far afield as Chicago. They spike occasional wire stories that show integration working, e.g., a recent A.P. dispatch about the acceptance of three Negroes at the University of North Carolina. They print and reprint testimonials by Negroes who say that they prefer segregation and ignore Negro leaders on the other side, except to quote them out of context to make them sound like wild radicals...
...Powell's gaga saga has gathered an odd and diverting cast of characters who make their entrances and exits, as people do in life, with no particular design. In The Acceptance World he shuffles them in all their inconsequence into the Great Depression, or as the British prefer to call it, "The Slump." The early '30s have been both mourned and deplored, but never quite so coldly derided...