Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dogs. For instance, they trained an animal to expect bread at the sound of a bell, but meat if a light were flashed instead. After a while, when both signals were employed at the same time, the animal invariably went for the bread, even though as a rule dogs prefer meat...
...been presented, nor are they the only group dedicated to these principles. Yet, their viewpoint, though formidable, is still a definite minority. If this was not so, their opinions would now be controlling our foreign policy. The way to increase influence is not to force doctrines on people that prefer to devise their own political philosophies, or to heckle prominent statesmen, but to apply the tools of our democracy. The SDS has done this; they have reached as many people as possible by legal means. The only alternative that they can rightfully take is to maintain a status quo -- continue...
Republican Levin H. Campbell is trying for the second straight time to unseat state Senator Francis X. McCann, and there are compelling reasons for Cambridge voters to prefer the challenger. McCann has shown in 12 years on Beacon Hill that he is a Democratic rubber stamp, responsible for little original thinking and less legislation. His most active effort for any project came four years ago when he sponsored the bill which would have destroyed the Memorial Drive sycamores to build a set of underpasses. McCann's public silence since then has been noticeable...
...routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing by 5% a year, and commuter profits this year should reach $2,000,000. Some long-haul travelers still prefer stylish comfort to speed. Bookings have risen for the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida Special since it put in movies and television, hired hostesses to give fashion shows, threw in free champagne and cigars with candlelit dinners...
Mature women with older children are rapidly returning to the office. Since 1955, the number of working women aged 35 to 64 has risen from 11.4 million to 15 million. Employers often prefer middle-aged women because they are less likely than younger married women to be kept away by a child with the mumps or some other domestic crisis. At the same time, much of the old prejudice against hiring younger women-for fear that they will marry, become pregnant and quit-has eased with the rise in use of the birth-control pill. "We never would have done...