Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must not exaggerate. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will not be twisting dials. With a spacecraft rounding Uranus at 42,000 m.p.h. 2 billion miles away, they prefer the sureness of digital to the romance of analog. And yet it is a small modern pleasure to see waves of the future meet some resistance. The new Lincoln Mark VII LSC has gone back to analog gauges. In the year of old Coke and narrative radio, hail the return of the analog watch...
...industry-wide slump in sales. Burroughs, facing the same problems, thinks the merger would allow the two companies to cut expenses by combining their purchasing, research and development, and other departments. More important, the combined bulk of the company could give reassurance to cautious computer buyers, who often prefer IBM simply because it stands so large and secure. Says Michael Geran, who studies the industry for E.F. Hutton: "The merger makes a lot of financial and strategic sense. If this goes through, it could be the start of an acquisition binge" among IBM's smaller rivals...
...they moodily listen to golden oldies, the members of the Big Chill generation sometimes seem to prefer looking back to looking forward. They often long for a simpler and dreamier time of dates at the drive-in, before real life intruded on their teenage idylls. Yet, as demonstrated in a poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman, Baby Boomers have not lost the American birthright of optimism about the future. While they may not live quite as well as their parents, a surprising number think they do, and most feel they have more freedom to choose their own life-styles...
...question is especially popular now: "When you're `confer-ing,' do you prefer the act or do you prefer cuddling...
...think they prefer cuddling," said Jun. "Doing the act requires too much concentration...