Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...
...Roxbury Negroes, the people who go to BAG [Boston Action Group] meetings are not for integration. They're identity-conscious. If they could get as good or better education without whites in the school, they would prefer it. I think it contributes to the myth of white superiority to say you can't get a good education without having whites going to school with you. It's just that you can't get the white officials to improve the schools cnless there are whites attending them...
...fault. At 33, she is an uneccentric star, who is only-as always in her life-trying to do what is expected of her, rather than what she herself might prefer. At the moment she is gamely making personal appearances in transparent dresses to plug the cardboard coquettes of her present and future films. She sends her children, Blanche and Herschel, to Beverly Hills' public school, and methodically charts her career with her husband, Director Jack Garfein. Her one unusual hobby is eating ice cream cones for breakfast every...
Though amused, Davis had other ideas for solving the crisis. "Some may treat change as an enemy," he says, "but I prefer to believe it to be an ally." Steadily moving Rank beyond motion pictures, he diversified it into everything from testing machines to tenpin bowling, chopped down the bank debt within four years. Such change has proved a powerful ally indeed for Rank and Davis. This week Rank reports record fiscal 1964 earnings of $13 million on sales of $250 million, up 50% over 1963 and 13 times those of pre-diversification days...
Every country has its loan sharks -cursed, legislated against, but regularly patronized. Peasants in India prefer to get their money without delay from the village moneylender rather than go through the red tape of a low-cost government loan. The price is high: as much as 75%, including all sorts of hidden costs. And in New York City, shady money dealers have been known to charge as much as 25% a week, or, theoretically, 1,300% a year. That is something of a present-day record, but it comes nowhere near history's highest interest rate...