Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, are usually married. Their husbands used to be admirable Crichtons of colonial society, and their daughters in time used to follow mother's footsteps across the gleaming floors. Though well-trained amahs nowadays earn up to $70 a month-a high wage for Malaya-their daughters mostly prefer office and factory jobs that give them greater freedom with no overtones of colonialism...
Electric shock is still the fastest and most effective treatment for depression. But psychiatrists prefer to try the drugs first, because shock so often produces temporary memory loss and confused thinking. Dr. Kline hopes not only to reduce the need for shock, but to speed up the energizers more conveniently with doses of 5-HTP taken by mouth, instead of injection...
Mary McCarthy's novel The Group, 20 years in the writing, has been signaled by a first printing of 75,000 copies, and for the first time, highbrow readers who have long acknowledged an athletic and logical brain will meet those who prefer the fictional products of female temperament...
...Bulldogging remains the popular layman's term, but modern rodeo cowboys prefer to call it steer wrestling; it is one of five standard events of the professional rodeo. Others: calf roping, bull riding, bareback riding, and saddle bronc riding...
...firm stock must first be approved by the exchange; the rule would obviously make the public sale and free trading of its stock impossible. McCarthy concedes that this approval may take years; the exchange is slow to change and is, after all, controlled by many of the insiders who prefer to keep Wall Street a club. But the Midwest Stock Exchange already has opened the way for public ownership, and Merrill Lynch feels that the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent call for more public participation may help persuade the New York Exchange to follow suit. If it succeeds...