Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the government's token gestures, and its talk of restoring some of the freedoms won by Solidarity, the regime is not prepared to relax its grip. Says one Western diplomat in Bonn: "Now they prefer that ominous Communist word normalization, and it is growing pretty clear we are returning to a Poland of 20, even 30 years...
...diet tips were standard. Avoid mayonnaise, butter, margarine, oil and salad dressings, drink lots of water and no more than two glasses of wine a day. Christie, who weighs in at 124 Ibs., does not chew gum, so she chomps on raw vegetables. She makes another exception. "I prefer champagne to wine," says Christie. "The bubbles fill you up more...
...COURSE, some people are naturally conservative they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...letter, Reader Mark Rogers says he opts for life under the Kremlin rather than death in a nuclear war. Having lived several years under Soviet rule, I, and many others with the same experience, would prefer dying to an endless existence in the people's paradise under Communism. Edward H. Vikart Ross, Calif...
...meant to be defensive. Says a State Department expert: "They would like to have an armed force sufficiently strong that they can, with impunity, participate in the subversion of neighboring states. They are, by their own definition, Marxist-Leninist, and it would seem fundamental that they would prefer to see their neighbors in the same bloc...