Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instability; it is not as though the two countries would attain critical mass if they were fused. Rather, the X factor in the debate, largely unmentionable among statesmen but deeply felt among their constituents, concerns the crimes and punishment of the German nation. Many Europeans, including most Soviets, would prefer to let the next generation, or even the one after that, test fully the proposition that 70 years of German expansionism, culminating in the horrors of Hitler, was an aberration...
Surprisingly, the plan has also received the backing of the masters--despite the fact that a smaller majority of masters would prefer a 100 percent random lottery. A sincere concern is that the masters have compromised too much...
Many students favor a particular house not because of the perceived stereotype of its students but because of its facilities, its campus location, or its physical beauty. Some students prefer houses with large rooms while others simply desire the tranquility of the Quad...
...sake of political expedience,representatives of both groups said they wouldlikely end up compromising. Masters who have fromthe beginning been averse to any change agreedthat if it were necessary to alter the system,they would prefer a modest proposal. And most saidthe student suggestion of "non-ordered choice"seemed the most acceptable...
...hours, from under 41 hours to nearly 47, according to a Harris survey. Earlier this year Felice Schwartz, president of Catalyst, a research and advisory group that focuses on women in business, proposed a now infamous solution. Writing in the Harvard Business Review, she proposed that professional women who prefer not to sacrifice family to ambition be relegated to a slower career path that would top out at middle management. They would get by with shorter hours and schedules flexible enough to permit the occasional trip to the pediatrician or school play...