Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report blames the price hikes not only on the suppliers but on Pentagon purchasing agents for failing to insist on greater competition among parts manufacturers, and for not reforming contracting procedures to prevent absurd markups. In practice, Pentagon agents tend to prefer "sole source" contracts with a major manufacturer, who will acquire the parts from subcontractors and take a profit as middleman. When bids on parts are sought, the Pentagon's buyers often deem the competition "adequate" even if the only "bidders" are the prime contractor and one of its subcontractors, whose business often depends upon remaining on good...
...18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person for three nights. Guests who prefer water to air can join the château's six-person "gourmet barge," which costs $6,000 a week to charter, all meals and wines included. Professional travel notes: airline tickets, hotels, tours and so forth are cheaper if paid for in francs in France. The exchange rate for traveler...
...room victory celebration, marked a more esoteric kind of triumph. When the green line made its telltale movement at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the sprawling high-energy physics research center outside Chicago, it signified a major scientific achievement. At that instant, Fermilab's newly rebuilt accelerator (physicists prefer that term to atom smasher) climbed to 512 billion electron volts (GeV),* the highest energy level ever reached by the powerful machines used by physicists to study the fundamental secrets of matter...
When asked where they are going to college in the fall, most incoming freshmen choose one of two answers; "a school in Boston" or "mumble, mumble." They might be proud and excited as hell to be coming to the Big H for four years but they would prefer to not let on to those who aren't. But it is only a matter of time before they start wearing Harvard ties to work and begin lunching daily at the Harvard Club. Being an alum--especially a Harvard alum--is different...
Half of those who divide quote Benchley and his fellow aphorists. The other half prefer proverbs. And why not? The aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. A proverb is anonymous human history compressed to the size of a seed. "Whom the gods love die young" implies a greater tragedy than anything from Euripides: old people weeping at the grave site of their children. "Love is blind" echoes of gossip in the marketplace, giggling students and clucking counselors: an Elizabethan comedy flowering from three words...