Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fulwell said he would "use whatever guidelines they suggested on choosing a topic,!" but that he would prefer most to address a Harvard audience on "Fundamentalism in America...
TIME'S Yankelovich poll underlines the point. Some 73% of the respondents believed that the computer revolution would enable more people to work at home. But only 31 % said they would prefer to do so themselves. Most work no longer involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries...
...their own eagerness," says Humor Consultant Bob Orben, who wrote for Bob Hope and Jerry Ford. Already Orben is spinning jokes about Glenn "peaking too soon" now that Ted Kennedy has withdrawn. Orben's business is booming. Without money, people can only laugh or cry, and they prefer laughter. Anybody who runs for office these days, says Orben, better have some good jokes. Just ask Ronald (have you heard the one about the pig with the wooden leg? . . . ) Reagan...
With Congress and Reagan headed for a possible showdown next year over the third installment of his three-year income tax reduction, the poll finds substantial public opposition to the 10% tax slash. Fully 47% of Americans prefer to cancel the cut if their altruism would help balance the federal budget, while 37% want the cut and 16% are undecided. A higher proportion of Republicans (53%) than Democrats (45%) would like to jettison the tax reduction...
Overall, a larger share of Americans (46%) hope Reagan will not seek re-election in 1984 than those who hope he will (39%, down 4% since October). Even among Republicans, only 58% prefer Reagan as their party's 1984 nominee...