Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Montanans are used to Custer controversy. The Crow Indians, who hold most of the 9,000 privately owned acres slicing through the battlefield, leased land for the 1969 filming of Little Big Man, which portrayed Custer as a grandiose madman. Monument boosters who prefer a more sober-eyed version of the hero are trying to raise $8 million to buy the land...
...taste of democracy in 20 years. Four opposition parties, capitalizing on the popular discontent with the military government, lobbied hard for the amendment, which would provide for direct election of the next President. The government has resisted, however, trying to hold on to power as long as possible. They prefer a gradual return to civilian rule, after President João Figueiredo steps down next year...
When it comes to dealing with Congress, however, he would prefer to be just a clam. Right at the start, the Senate Intelligence Committee censured Casey, a lawyer and venture capitalist in private life, for failing to disclose during his confirmation hearings more than $250,000 in investment assets and nearly $500,000 in personal liabilities. Questions about his finances persist to this day: the Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing his involvement in a tax-shelter scheme...
Reagan Administration officials prefer more political explanations. "This marvelous news proves we are beginning to win the battle against crime," said Attorney General William French Smith. Steven Schlesinger, head of the Justice Department's bureau of justice statistics, attributes the new numbers to a national hard line on crime that has led to tougher sentences and sent the prison population skyrocketing. Schlesinger and others also give credit to the recent proliferation of neighborhood crime watch and other community self-protection projects...
...produced a policy which is at once both unreliable and dangerously unstable. After noting the advantages and problems of each possibility, such as Counterforce (the current Soviet policy) and Non-violent Resistance, Dyson advocates a concept known technically as Parity Plus Damage-Limiting. This doctrine, which Dyson prefers to call "Live and Let Live," means that "we maintain the ability to damage you as badly as you can damage us, but we prefer our own protection to your destruction...