Word: prefereable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second assumption is that the change from a white to a black dominated society will occur in a revolutionary fashion. Now, that assumption is subject to debate. Our natural desires and hopes as educated people who prefer to deal in concepts is that the inevitable change will be peaceful. Therefore, we think of innumerable plans, we look for any amount of improvement no matter how insignificant the number of individuals affected, to justify our hopes. Hence, we have the Sullivan principles. We also have Mr. Bok's letters. Both are premised on the hope that change will be peaceful. History...
There was very little in the news to buttress the President's buoyancy. The latest Consumer Price Index showed that inflation was running at an annual rate of 13%-the highest such rate in more than four years. A new Gallup poll indicated that Democrats prefer Senator Edward Kennedy by a hefty 58% to 31% over Carter as the nominee of their party in 1980. The oil companies were pressuring Congress to gut Carter's proposal for a tax on windfall profits when oil prices are decontrolled in June. And though at week's end negotiations between...
However, he emphasized the personal reasons for his departure and said he would prefer working at Pomona to working at Harvard because of the California school's smaller size...
SAWHILL: I prefer to call it not a crisis, but a problem, arising from our growing dependence for oil on a politically unstable part of the world. We have failed to curtail imports, and in the short term we are completely at the mercy of the Middle East oil suppliers...
...begins with a Saturday afternoon. Baseball season may have already lumbered over the horizon, but even the Red Sox can't enthrall every kid in town. Some of those children will always prefer to spend their time catching the odd fish rather than the errant fast ball...