Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believed, American-style, in small profits and big turnovers. Said he: "I prefer to make one lira cutting costs rather than five by raising prices." But where Donegani's business acumen triumphed, his political instincts failed. A Fascist member of Parliament as early as 1921 and onetime president of the National Fascist Federation of Industries, Donegani was arrested by the Allies in 1945. He died two years later, a broken...
...they prefer, volunteers between the ages of 18 1/2 and 25 can now take part in the "six month plan," which will permit them to spend six months in intensive training and the other 5 1/2 years in the ready reserve. This choice was formerly open only to 17-18 1/2 year olds. Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker said that the changes came as "new measures to improve combat readiness of the Army reserve components...
...great play. Maybe it's not even a play. But it's very good theatre. . . .It certainly is not Pollyanna-ish; and I suspect that the play's appeal to people twenty-five years old or under is due to the fact that youth has a tendency to prefer the disagreeable." Marston Balch (Tufts) said that "the play is clearly allegorical: Godot is one's goal, and everyone has his own individual Godot...
...other big investor favorite, Standard & Poor's 90-stock compilation, is calculated on another basis. Like the Government's price indexes, it expresses the value of its stocks relative to a base period, currently the years between 1935 and 1939. Some professional traders prefer the Standard & Poor because its greater number of stocks presents a broader picture of the market and also because they feel that it is statistically superior. But the fact is that Dow-Jones and Standard & Poor are in fairly close agreement from day-to-day. Both show the same broad ups and downs...
Britain should be reluctant "to move closer to this continental community," Gaitskell said, "unless the U.S. moves along too... We would prefer to see, in other words, any closer integration taking place with in a more vital and more closely knit Atlantic Community...