Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stricker said she would prefer not to dwell on her performance explaining that she believes her time should improve. In a really big race there is so much excitement that inspires you to run faster," she said. "If you get a top runner to set the pace and do the work for you then can run even faster...
...began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...
...recent history of the auto industry exemplifies the clumsiness of high prices as a mechanism to promote conservation. Detroit continued to manufacture gas-guzzlers long after gas prices soared, as auto executives balked at the massive investment required to switch to making smaller cars. Higher gas prices made consumers prefer more efficient cars, but the cars weren't available until years after the consumers wanted them, and then only after the government required the car companies to improve the mileage of their fleets...
...turned away. Clearly, the need for a consistent policy will become more urgent as the Core grows. Upperclassmen are quick to recognize that exiling freshmen is the only sensible solution, but roughly one fourth of Harvard undergraduates are curiously blind to this crystal logic. True gamblers, these freshmen prefer to go for broke with a random lottery. Both systems have some merit, and we advocate the oft-sought happy medium--a random lottery weighted for seniority for all oversubscribed courses...
Although many Currier residents recall similar stories of initial lottery disappointment, these reminiscences dominate few characterizations of the House today. Perceptions of Currier as a House inconveniently located and primarily occupied by people who would prefer to live elsewhere are largely ill-conceived, according to residents interviewed last week. Replacing that image, students and tutors say, is an evolving reputation as a House with more activity and spirit than other Houses, including those at the River...