Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the coffee or tea break in the West, the perekur is one of the favorite indulgences of Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health...
...York a year ago, the Federal Reserve Board spelled out rules that all banks must follow to comply with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. If those rules are vigorously enforced, no bank will be able to discriminate against-or in favor of-women. In that case, many women may prefer the efficiency and wide range of services provided by the big established banks. Whether or not they are too little, the women's banks may be too late...
Voicing a widely felt disdain for Lamont's sterile environs and "squeaky floors," both Wheeler and Jean prefer Quincy "because it's got comic books...
QUESTION NO. 6--Since this question applies to, among other things, beer containers, and since sports fans generally prefer warm milk to beer, it's really pretty useless to even discuss...
...Catholic, I would much prefer to shrug off a few tasteless jokes about the Pope or the church than to interfere with the right of people to express their opinions or views in private...