Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, as results came in from experimental plantings two years ago, the miracle proved highly vulnerable to such mundane enemies as bacteria, blight and insects. It required expensive nitrogen fertilization and often broke during milling. Many Asians, who prefer their rice sticky and manageable in the bowl, found IR8 too starchy and dry. Indonesians, in particular, complained because the stubby IR8 stalks had to be cut with a larger blade than could be concealed in the hand. That, they felt, offended their rice goddess...
...Hare, the nation's busiest, handled 27 million passengers last year, and has just about reached saturation. A $200 million expansion program is under way to accommodate the 40 million travelers expected by 1975. Washington's National Airport is badly overcrowded, but passengers prefer its convenience to bigger but more distant Dulles or Friendship...
...Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment to the manager's post...
...Some men are just naturally good committee members--I mean that in a serious sense," Ford says. These men tend to be on many committees, more than they themselves may prefer...
...HANGING of the show itself is backwards, and some visitors may prefer to start at the end and work toward the front, as the original creators of the collection had planned. Yet objects have been placed together with careful attention to similarities in the types of works, however discontinuous the pattern is chronologically or by school. For instance, all portraits are combined in one small galery and geometric and cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude...