Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with me," Mondale declared. "We will be campaigning together." Jackson promptly headed to Virginia, where he met with 13 Southern state party chairmen who told him he would be welcome to campaign in their region. Despite fears that Jackson could become a loose cannon, Mondale's aides clearly prefer the prospect of working along with Jackson to any alternative...
...sometimes rich in emotional bias. "In some places, it's called 'unnatural reproduction'; in others it's 'abnormal reproduction,'" says Lori Andrews, a research attorney for the American Bar Foundation and author of New Conceptions, a guide to the new reproductive techniques. "We prefer 'artificial' or 'alternative reproduction,'" she adds. As for the increasing number of children born by these methods, there is no standard term...
Given a choice, most parents would probably prefer a bright child, but intelligence is hardly the only variable. Many sperm banks now offer prospective parents some options on what the collaborating donors look like, on the ground that it is preferable for the child to resemble its legal parents. From there it is only a short step before some parents try to choose blonds instead of brunets, or boys instead of girls. A German clinic in Essen claims that its sperm donors include "no fat men, no long ears, no hook noses . . ." "We can talk in impressive pseudoscientific terms about...
...Affairs. Good professional supervision for children, though, is often hard to find, and the possibility of child abuse is a growing concern. Working parents horrified by a series of sex scandals in day care centers around the country, the most recent involving dozens of children in New York City, prefer company-run programs close to the office, where mothers and fathers can drop by during the day. Indeed, companies that do not provide such facilities can have trouble attracting and keeping talented employees...
...formal, slightly archaic tone of a fairy tale. And phrases like "valley of the painted horse", and a character named "Rapture" come right out of the fantasy worlds created for and by children. Oh-Ok's lyrics may be simple, but they are certainly not straightforward. Rather, they prefer to make their songs fragmented and oblique, hiding meaning not beneath lucid narrative, but in seemingly nonsensical childish ramblings...