Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naples, who received his B.A. from West Point and was awarded an A.M. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1972, said he would prefer to work with the secretary of the Treasury...
...read and write. Named head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1948, he resigned four years later, arguing that a budget cut imperiled the agency's drive for social progress. Suffering from cancer of the prostate, he wrote in a suicide note: "I prefer to call on death myself at the right time...
...least, a substantial Latin American minority, and perhaps a plurality, opposed to Cuba's formal re-incorporation. Reincorporation, if it were to occur, would have to be worked out so that it would be separate from participation in inter-American defense activities. And, lastly, I noted that Nixon may prefer to keep faith with conservatives in the U S by holding back on such a formal recognition that the cold war is dead in the hemisphere, so long as he needs 34 senators on his side. Unfortunately, your reporter turned this last statement into the theme of our conversation...
...completed a poll for TIME showing that the percentage of Americans who wanted Nixon to resign or be impeached had jumped to 55%, from 39% last November and 30% last August (see accompanying chart). The results indicate that those who wanted to see Nixon out of office clearly would prefer that he resign rather than be impeached. If the President fails to resign, however, the people in the latest poll would be almost evenly split between impeachment (43%) and the President's staying in office (44%); 13% were not sure...
...Railroad. Today country-music stars may sing about riding the freights or drinking a brew, but many go home to antebellum mansions or $500,000 ranch houses, buy Cadillacs and keep houseboats around for the weekends. A trend now is toward private jets, but many country stars, Haggard included, prefer to own their own buses-huge $100,000 cruisers decked out with color TVs, recording equipment, separate quarters for star and band, sometimes even separate buses...