Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kinds of experiences because they don't have equal access to people of different kinds"--thanks to the impetus to clique-forming provided by a lottery based on choice. Yet because of administration perceptions that students would fight a more stringent system every step of the way, "everyone would prefer students to have freedom of choice...
...consensus is that students would prefer to "spread the pain evenly' by taking on more jobs and loans, rather than lose the assurance that all accepted applicants will get the and they need, the College will have to consider possibilities like establishing its own loan program to supplement the $2500 per student limit and other restrictions on federal loans, Jewett said...
...whatever. Burma hates the New Wave label, but that's what sells in a lot of places today. Burma aspires to solvency, and the band members can adjust equally well to Jasper's and White Russians or to the Paradise and crazy kid punks, though it seems they might prefer a melding of the two: enthusiastic dancing-types who can afford to pay real cover charges. Capitalism doesn't pose problems for Burma, as it does for some hands they play with. At Jasper's the opening group. Proletariat, sings a tune called "Das Kapital" and the musicians wear Solidarity...
...generation of college economics students learned that maxim from the classic textbook by Paul Samuelson. Labor unions had become so strong, the reasoning went, that they had virtually repealed the law of supply and demand as it applies to jobs and wages. Even in difficult economic times, unions would prefer to sacrifice jobs rather than relinquish hard-won gains hi salaries or benefits. During the 1973-75 recession, the worst since the Great Depression, many workers went on strike or suffered layoffs so that they would not have to give up what they won in past wage negotiations...
Among the few remaining jukebox havens are taverns, especially in the South, where the record players first got their name. Juke was a slang term for disorderly in the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina. The name stuck to the music machines, although manufacturers prefer to call them coin-operated phonographs. However they are known, the once proud symbols of teen-age America may now be on their way to becoming just collectors' items and sources of nostalgia...