Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry could be shut down completely. At week's end the supervisors had not yet struck, and were pushing for arbitration to settle the broader dispute. For now, though, to Kinnock's discomfort and the nation's unease, the Coal Board and its workers seem to prefer fighting to talking...
...Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool; the cunning security system permits leisurely monitored strolls across the seven-acre compound. The GSA, which placed discreet ads in major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, has received inquiries from as far away as Europe and China. Says GSA Officer Howard DeVane: "They all know a good deal when they...
...distant future," Justice O'Connor wrote last year. "The court would not have to go against precedent," says Falkenberg. "It could simply say that the state had a compelling interest in protecting the fetus at an earlier stage." Some legal experts believe the court would prefer not to re-examine advances in medicine constantly and would decide instead that it should not be in the business of determining when life be gins. If that happens, the court could reverse Roe and leave it to state legislatures to decide whether to permit abortion...
...feel about nuclear issues that effect their lives so vitally suggests that we adults have entered into a kind of compact with ourselves not to know. We suspect that the implications of what we are doing to the emotional development of our young are so horrifying that we would prefer to remain ignorant, for the veil of denial is easy enough to tear away once...
...last week by promising a return to "traditional values." The 120-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. blond daughter of a Mormon missionary does not smoke, drink, take drugs, believe in abortion, condone premarital sex or back the Equal Rights Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young University who wants to become a news anchorwoman, Wells bristles at the suggestion that her conservative views helped her win the crown. "It seems that the media are bent on forcing everything I say into their Miss America mold...