Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claims of those who want to stop unrestrained development--downzone, and begin planning for people--Crane calls them all "ENE's"--ecologists and environmentalists--who prefer to stop rather than start things in Cambridge. "To me accusations of progress [under my administration] without planning are just wordy rhetoric. Any course of action is open for criticism in Cambridge nowadays." He claims that his administration "certainly endorsed planning." Witness the planning office, he says, which jumped from a $15 appropriation for postage stamps in 1938 to $186,000 by 1971. "Unrestrained development? There are not six square miles [the size...
...nothing to encourage that conflict. It exists; it is a fact of political life. It is not anything in which we can ourselves get involved. But a war between those two countries would be unfortunate. We're trying to improve relations with both [countries]. Of course, each might prefer it if we did not have a relationship with the other. For our purposes, it is better to have a relationship with both...
...achievements, Kowal remains largely ignored by his more illustrious colleagues, who prefer to focus their attention on more exotic objects like pulsars, quasars and black holes. Still, the obscure research associate is moving up in the organization. Two years ago, his office was in the third basement of a Caltech physics building, but he has since been elevated to the subbasement. Kowal is not particularly impressed. "This building is like an ocean liner," he says wryly. "All the professors are up there on the promenade deck promenading. This is the engine room where all the work gets done...
...speaks of its "exciting" character. More disturbing in Ms. Keller's letter is her suggestion that 1-1-2 (which would end hoosing of upperclass students in the Quad Houses) is the only housing option that retains student choice. What about the many students, male and female, who now prefer living in Currier, North and South Houses and are fithging against the plan's implementation? Charles Shepard
Even that tense mixture seems prefer able to the unmixed subjectivity of this Lisztless exercise. Lisztomania is not only a parody of biographical convention, but a self-parody as well - a non stop effort to blind audiences to a once interesting sensibility now decayed into vulgarity...