Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans manage to forget for so many years that downtowns are invigorating and old cities grand? That the dignity and Gemutlichkeit of 18th century buildings and 19th century streets are incomparable? That the physical past is worth preserving? Did a majority of Americans in 1970 actually prefer Century City to San Francisco? Were people fetched by the shiny new discord of Houston suburbs more than by shabby, genteel New Orleans, by the glass and steel of downtown Minneapolis more than by the brick and stone of downtown St. Paul...
This is not to imply, as pot propagandists do, that marijuana should be legalized. If you were inventing a new society, perhaps. You might prefer the intoxicant of choice to be marijuana, since alcohol can be more physically damaging and addicting. But such considerations are irrelevant to deciding what society ought to do about marijuana today. We are not inventing a new society. There is such a thing as history. We have millenniums of experience with alcohol. It is ineradicably part of our culture. The question today is not Will it be alcohol or marijuana? The only relevant question...
...honesty, I'd much rather prefer avoiding all contact with the American League," he said. "George Steinbrenner probably is the only person in this country who's a bigger asshole than Serge Lang...
...while many Yalies fulfill their patriotic duties by buying toilet paper, apparently many more prefer purchasing what they consider clever T-shirts...
Although this particular aspect of the Walsh Plan is reasonable, rent control supporters--led by City Councilor David E. Sullivan--generally prefer the existing Cambridge controls. In the meantime, 2,500 citizens languish on the Cambridge public housing waiting lists that date until 1992; professionals seeking absurdly cheap apartments offer "finders" up to $1000 for information leading to the discovery of a below market-rate unit; and libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick rented a 2500 square foot apartment--complete with jacuzzi, sauna, and balcony--that was nonetheless subject to rent control restrictions...