Word: prefereable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter enemies circled each other like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin of about 10,000 votes...
...likely Democrats: the blacks and the Latinos, the poor and the young. The D.N.C. and labor will also be working to ensure that all eligible voters cast their ballots on Nov. 2. A recent survey by Peter D. Hart Associates shows that people who do not plan to vote prefer Carter over Ford...
...some clubs have dictated doubles only for weekends, which frequently translates into mixed-doubles. One of the largest groups in the new wave of tennis players are the over 50s, men and women whose children are grown up and who want to do something together. They also tend to prefer the slower pace of mixed doubles...
...trouble is that since consumers prefer their chicken fresh (only 8% of broilers are frozen), the birds cannot be shipped any great distance to market. So the business has remained a regional one, in which most companies are too small to indulge in sophisticated market analysis or production planning. As a result, the industry regularly goes through an 18-month cycle: encouraged by high prices, growers produce too many chickens; prices thereupon tumble, and production drops...
...open to him: elder statesman. He will campaign vigorously for Ford in northeastern industrial states, and elsewhere if asked. Should Ford win, Rocky is a long-shot possibility for Secretary of State; but he no longer savors the political infighting that is part of any Cabinet job. He would prefer to be a part-time adviser on issues that still absorb him-for example, energy and international economic development. His personally funded Commission on Critical Choices is being phased out, but he could create some other forum of his own. Says Rocky: "I'm the kind of person...