Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community organizing, negotiating with local leaders, as well as hiring and managing a staff of up to 13 counselors. This year, the directors of six programs are female. In addition, summer camp directors, both male and female, often do not even run for Steering Committee because they prefer not to. They find their work as directors more engrossing, fulfilling and challenging than an administrative role as an officer of the Association...
This analysis ignores the fact that many Americans prefer to have a choice between candidates. To annoint Sam Nunn, Bill Bradley or Lloyd Bentsen as the party's standard-bearer is tantamount to telling the electorate, "Well, sure, we're the Democratic Party, but we're the Democratic Party, but we're going to try to adopt the Republican Party's ideals, and try to convince you that we can do a better job at being conservative that they...
...tell their story of trouble in Nirvana, Hubner and Gruson adopt the usual techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...
...Psychologist Charles Figley, who treats state and local officials in Indiana, helps ease the way for them by inviting them to his home, disguising their counseling sessions as dinner parties. Better, he says, to call it "educational consultation." At least, that is, until voters wise up and begin to prefer flesh-and-blood First Families to all those smiling, we've-nothing-to-hide supporting casts...
...Americans want a return to an activist Government that boldly addresses domestic problems, or do they prefer a more cautious, reactive and less ambitious approach...