Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreign Assistance Act that Congress passed, over the opposition of the Ford Administration, requiring the Executive Branch to produce an annual evaluation to help Congress make decisions on foreign aid. The report is more tolerant toward the behavior of U.S. friends than that of antagonists. "With friendly countries, we prefer to use diplomacy, not public pronouncements," it says. Not surprisingly, the survey's main villains are the Soviet Union ("The status of human rights . . . continues to fall far short of accepted inter national standards"), Cuba ("Freedoms of speech and press do not exist") and Nicaragua ("The human rights situation...
...made." The request was met with nervous laughter. Many members criticized the only substantive cut the Administration has proposed, freezing military pay for a year, an objection that was tacitly endorsed by General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told the lawmakers he would prefer cuts in weapons procurement instead...
...women prefer earlier streetwalking hours on several grounds. They maintain that they could capture a larger share of the commuter crowd if they were allowed to begin work at 5 p.m. The city government, which collects taxes on their trade, could also benefit. Moving up the starting time would free the prostitutes from having to hang around bars. Says Josephine, a vivacious redhead who drew up the petition: "If you do not drink, the personnel are not very happy, since their wages are based on turnover. Men want you to drink with them, and there is a great danger...
...think that I prefer undergraduate teaching and I would insist on it for myself," said the Canadian-born Bercovich...
...should doubt that he has all requisite skepticism toward the Soviets. But he may ultimately lack patience with compatriots he considers wrongheaded. "If Reagan fails to concede more flexibility," says one colleague, "I think Paul would leave." Even if Nitze is finally forced out of government, he will surely prefer to go discreetly, ever the gentleman policymaker. Says Nitze: "There's been entirely too much fuss made over problems here on the Washington scene." The fuss and the problems are surely not over yet. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington