Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a month, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been sending signals back and forth about the need for high-level talks this fall on limiting space weapons. Last week, when Washington again indicated it would prefer not to restrict the discussions to limits on such weapons, the Kremlin declared ominously: "The position of the United States has made impossible negotiations as proposed by the Soviet government." The chilly abruptness of that statement was unexpected. Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration politely but firmly continued to call for talks on intermediate-range and intercontinental missiles, as well as space weapons...
...could be a sharp drop in the dollar over the next six months, or there could be a gradual drop, or it could move even higher. The only honest answer is that we do not know." Having been consistently amazed by the dollar's surge, the experts now prefer to let the currency do the talking. - By John Greenwald. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
Your graph vividly shows that 55% of the people prefer someone other than Mondale. The question for San Francisco delegates: Who has the best hope of beating Ronald Reagan? This is a country run by Nielsen ratings. Only Hart has the smile to compete with Reagan's on the evening news...
...that make clothes and plastic bags. Zvieli, an accountant for one of the factories, is asked how things are going. "Not bad," he responds, "but the high interest is eating up profits." Zvieli pauses, pondering the larger dimensions of a question that could be asked about Israel itself. "I prefer not to get into politics," he says cautiously. "But I am disappointed by what is happening to our state...
...qualities of La Pittura Colta go far beyond, or below, De Chirico's fussy homages to Rubens, Titian or Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth, all in a Roman campagna done from slides-the love among the ruins that dares not speak its name...