Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Such a change would save billions of dollars and still leave the U.S. its missile-firing submarines and nuclear bombers. But Pentagon strategists point out that bombers can be shot down and that eventually submarines may also become vulnerable. They prefer to complicate the Russians' offensive problems by relying on the present triad nuclear force...
...Goldfish teamed with two brothers named Selwyn to make "Goldwyn" pictures. He took the name with him when he was forced out of the concern in 1922- before it merged with Metro and Mayer to form perhaps the most famous movie name of all. "A self-made man may prefer a self-made name" was Judge Learned Hand's remark, after Goldwyn's former associates sought to restrain him legally from using it on his independent releases...
...Jewett both said yesterday that next year's transfers will be explicitly told they have very low priority in the housing pool. Arthurs said her office would "look with more care at the nonresident pool" of applicants and "won't admit [as forced transfers] local people who would prefer to live on campus...
...would all prefer a world in which our nation were invulnerable to nuclear attack, an international system in which national survival would not depend on our ability to slaughter a hundred million Russians. But such a world is not feasible today, nor is it likely in the foreseeable future...
...debut for the R.S.C., which ranks second only to the National Theater (originally the Old Vic) in prestige among British repertory companies. Some London drama critics even prefer it to the older troupe. Playgoers' expectations were high, perhaps too high. While these two idiosyncratic productions have not precisely dashed those expectations, they have perceptibly dampened them...