Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think the faculty felt that they were buying peace," says Rosovsky, who resigned from the Standing Committee immediately after the faculty voted to accept the students' demands. "I certainly prefer peace to all the other alternatives, but I think the price was too high. Too high for the students...
Cicero, a 1985 graduate of Dartmouth, is uncertain of his future plans, but would prefer to leave the sports scene...
Harvard certainly has a long way to go to eliminate intolerance among its own. But at least Harvard does not allow the intolerant to unite in residential bastions where they can reinforce each other's prejudices. Until Duke aggressively integrates its housing, I'll prefer Harvard...
...August of last year, was suffering from the same, nearly always fatal hereditary disorder, called bare lymphocyte syndrome. They could have aborted the child or allowed doctors to try the same kind of white-blood-cell transplant after birth that had failed with their firstborn. But the couple, who prefer to remain anonymous, chose a historic third option: to let their child receive the first ever transplant of human fetal cells to a child in the womb...
...small-town America worth the expenditure of more state and federal money? As U.S. cities face deeper problems, ranging from grime to gridlock, the rural option could become more important, or at least more appealing. In a recent USA Today poll, 39% of the people surveyed said they would prefer to live in a small town. (According to U.S. Census figures, less than 24% of the population dwells in rural areas, compared with 44% in 1950.) At the very least, says former Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, "it would be unwise for U.S. public policy to force people to leave rural...