Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan was back at the White House by nightfall Thursday. His campaign schedule is no grind. On the road only two or three days a week, he tries to avoid addressing complicated issues or difficult audiences. His strategists prefer a succession of snapshots: Reagan amid a lift-off of 5,000 balloons in Waterbury last week, Reagan surrounded by smiling workers during a planned visit to an Akron steel plant this week. The idea is simple: just keep the jaunty President walking on the sunny side of the street...
...police chief met with minority leaders to hammer out a more restrictive deadly force policy; a solution which satisfied all parties involved was agreed upon and is now in effect. That is the way we do things in Dallas. Rather than confrontation, Dallasites seek negotiation; rather than violence, we prefer cooperation...
Since then, Yves has been the looming figure perpetually getting in the way of Karl's owned and operated spotlight. Although he insists that Saint Laurent is "the high-fashion designer I prefer to all the other ones," Lagerfeld created a furor last spring with an interview in the Paris-based monthly Actuel in which he had some saucy things to say about his fellow designer. Certainly the reflections (which Lagerfeld claims were not intended for publication) were not out of character for a man who says, "I respect nothing, no one, including myself. Respect is not a very...
...addition, he states, scientists prefer "earthbound" explanations...
Fewer air traffic controllers, more flights, a shortage of runways and gates, and summer storms have all been blamed for the crunch. But according to the Federal Aviation Administration, the airlines themselves are the most culpable. They prefer to schedule flights early in the morning and in the evening to coincide with the business day, and to bunch their operations on the hour. At Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport, 42 takeoffs and landings are scheduled between 8 a.m. and 8:09, though the airport is capable of handling only about 20 of them...