Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automakers complain that meeting the requirement will require an unforeseen technological breakthrough, a relaxation of exhaust-emission standards and a massive switch by consumers to automobiles about the size of General Motors' tiny Chevette, which seats four passengers and gets 32 miles per gal. The automakers would prefer using higher prices at the pump, penalties for gas-guzzling autos or refunds to buyers of efficient cars to achieve greater mileage efficiency. Further, the bill orders the Federal Energy Administration to set standards requiring manufacturers to improve the efficiency of such products as furnaces, television sets, stoves and refrigerators...
...rhetoric was familiar. "We don't like the word strike," said Max Arons, president of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. "We prefer to say 'withdraw our services.' " However one cared to put it, the lines were drawn last week for a possibly fateful labor struggle at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Since he was appointed executive director a year ago, Anthony A. Bliss, 62, has been negotiating with the 14 artistic and craft unions at the Met over new contracts. All have been performing since the summer under contract extensions that expire...
...Nesson, probably because of his modest manner, remains unknown to many undergraduates and even law students here. The defender of Ellsberg and Edelin, the prosecutor of the Ku Klux Klan, the battler against wiretapping plays it quiet and close to his chest. "I prefer," he says, "to remain out of the public...
...responsible for all that his society has done, does, and will do." While no Englishman feels any personal responsibility for the slave trading practiced by his ancestors, Anti-American Americans demand that their fellow countrymen feel guilty permanently about slavery and other transgressions of the past. Anti-Americans prefer role playing with inflated symbols -"Violence is as American as cherry pie"-to the rigors of logical thought. This sort of emotional indulgence, writes Fairlie, "returns no answer from the historical experience of the country itself, its actual achievements and its actual failures, but instead sedulously and virulently retreats...
...reviewer need not be in his dotage to rave about it. Increasingly, Iolanthe seems to be the favorite work of most Gilbert & Sullivan fanciers. Those who like the gentle, submarine beauty of Sullivan's music claim the best of that is here; others who prefer his loud, brass musical parodies consider the finest of them to be songs like "Bow, bow ye lower middle classes" and "When all night long a chap remains." Those who love the way Gilbert's characters take an inherently silly contradiction and straight-facedly draw it out to a logical conclusion consider the Lord Chancellor...