Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government regulation. Polls show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made tougher. Failure to make the distinction between rules involving economic competition and those affecting health and safety, contends George Eads, an adviser on regulations to Presidents Ford...
...with volleyball. The Computer Resort in Chico, Calif, sponsored by Texas Instruments, features jumbo-size steaks barbecued around a swimming pool. Princess Cruises in Los Angeles will coordinate 15 hours of classes with a ten-day sail that includes calls at Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco. Cost: $1,995. Prefer your silicon seminars on terra firma? For $879, Club Med provides Atari computers along with white-sand beaches and pina coladas at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic...
...move their eyes when he showed them two different objects; he carefully measured what they looked at and for how long. Given a choice, he showed, babies will look at a checkerboard surface rather than a plain one, a bulls-eye target rather than stripes, and in general they prefer the complex to the simple. Says Rutgers' Michael Lewis: "Out of such elementary observations, monstrously important consequences grew...
...newborn arrives with a whole set of auditory reactions. As early as the 1960s, tests indicated that babies go to sleep faster to the recorded sound of a human heartbeat or any similarly rhythmic sound. More recent studies indicate that by the time they are born, babies already prefer female voices; within a few weeks, they recognize the sound of their mother's speech...
...University of Edinburgh, T.G.R. Bower and his associates have been conducting about 1,000 experiments a year on various infant abilities. One of their most startling claims is that babies can tell the gender of other infants they are looking at, and they prefer to look at those of their own sex. Bower made films of an infant boy and girl making various movements, and then deleted from the film a11 apparent signs of gender and even swapped their clothes. Some adult viewers had difficulty telling them apart...