Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maximum effect. Ford's proposed two-part rebate scheme-one payment to be made in May, a second in September-would be too little, too late to hasten an economic upswing. Even Arthur Burns, the cautious, independent chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said that he would prefer an immediate reduction in taxes, provided it was not made permanent. Liberals also argued that more money than Ford had proposed should be returned to lower-income groups...
...undergraduate, I am greatly distressed by CHUL's decision to hold two meatless days a week beginning February 15. It is not so much that I dislike the idea of meatless days (though I would prefer not to have them), but rather the fact that no referendum on the question will be held until the end of spring break. I believe that in an issue as important to undergraduate life as this, the normal channels of CHUL decision making must be bypassed. It is not right that a body as small as CHUL, with only 13 student members, should...
...hulled into a state of complacency during the experimental period; when the vote finally does come, CHUL believes, resistance will have turned to apathy, and the proposition will undoubtedly pass. Has it considered, however, the possibility of the measure's defeat? If a majority of undergraduates believe they do prefer days with meat, CHUL will have robbed them of approximately two weeks worth of meat: and for no apparent reason...
...quickly scotched easy analogies to those half-forgotten days. His people, he says, would not accept power if it were offered to them, because that would mean a direction confrontation with the PRG instead of the conciliatory neutrality they prefer. But he seemed to have some trouble explaining just what his Third Force is and who it speaks for. He says he has a lot of friends in the army--and he laughs, recounting how soldiers used to be sent to stuff ballot-boxes against him, but when the votes were counted it turned out they had voted...
Author Lahr has already earned bouquets for Notes on a Cowardly Lion, an autobiography of his father, Comedian Bert Lahr, and scattered applause for his first novel, The Autograph Hound. Hot to Trot is an entertaining economy tour de force for those who prefer to travel fast and light...