Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prefer to work towards a practical dialogue between these groups rather than to reduce the issues to pure emotional terms. While we recognize a wide divergence of opinion on these issues, Professor Dershowitz's comments will not help to provoke the kinds of dialogue that will foster a greater sensitivity to each other's view point. Timothy A. Wilkins '86 President, Black Students Association Seth R. Horowitz '86 Chairperson, Hillel Coordinating Council
Melendez said he would prefer not to move into Phillips Brooks House because of its high rents, and would instead prefer the Burr Hall location, where the council "would be much more visible and accessible" to students, especially freshmen...
...lighter moment, Defense Secretary Weinberger began by noting that he would much prefer to have an uncontroversial job like director of the National Gallery of Art. But he went on to defend the Administration's military buildup as well as the controversial Star Wars plan. Later, Senators Joseph Biden, Gary Hart, William Cohen and Nancy Kassebaum gave a bipartisan critique of the Administration's defense and foreign policies, amid some jovial byplay between Hart and Biden on the approaching 1988 presidential campaign. After a vigorous exchange on policy, several of the visitors expressed surprise at how prominent an issue defense...
...building represents a type that is becoming rarer and rarer around Harvard Square," said Kathy Spiegleman, an official of the Community Development Department, who said she would prefer to retain the old structure in the University's new design...
Economic necessity, not serendipity, will push libraries into the computer age. Electronic data are easier to store and cheaper to move from place to place than printed material. On the other hand, most readers prefer browsing through books and magazines to reading little green words on a video screen. And nobody seems eager to take on the Herculean task of transcribing into bits and bytes the vast body of knowledge already stored in printed volumes. "The book is here to stay," says New York Public Library President Vartan Gregorian, who presided over that library's computerization. "What we're doing...