Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city. Inevitably, some of these will have to be cut back. A prime target of almost every disinterested observer is the municipal hospital system, which costs the city more than $304 million a year. The bed-occupancy rate of the 18 hospitals continues to decline because patients receiving Medicaid prefer to go to the better-equipped private institutions. Thus the occupancy rate in city hospitals is 77%, v. 87% or more in the private hospitals. Without imperiling medical care, the number of city hospitals could be reduced to five or six-with a major one in each of the city...
...York State court of appeals. Says Cooke: "The defense rarely ever waives a jury trial, knowing that the jury is an ally, not an enemy. Juries, which are often male-dominated, are extremely reluctant to convict." So are a surprising number of female jurors. Many middle-class women jurors prefer not to believe young, braless and freewheeling rape victims. In particular, the myth that victims somehow provoke and accept rape is still very much alive. "In our many years of work with the sexual offender," reports Psychologist Groth and Co-Researcher Ann Wolbert Burgess, "we have yet to find...
There is little doubt that Hanoi would like to have all of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia under its control. Saigon and the Mekong Delta, for instance, are prizes the North Vietnamese treasure, but they would prefer to absorb them with a minimum of dissension and violence. Thus Hanoi's tactics in South Viet Nam are shrewd and pragmatic: go slow, don't push, reeducate...
When the department meets to consider appointments, the Gov faculty often divides along methodological, institutional and political lines. "People do have those opinions and tend to prefer to hire people with the same opinions as themselves, but we would very quickly go down the drain if we used similarity of opinion as the main criterion," Mansfield said...
...steel skin that are braced with odd pieces of wood. The interiors of most departments are dimly lit and cavernous. "Sophisticated equipment wouldn't necessarily go well here," says a senior executive. "Black-country laborers [so named because of the region's soot-grimed landscape] prefer physical effort, and if they're dirty, sweating and completely knocked out at the end of the day, they feel satisfied...