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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most members of the Senate committee, as well as those on a House Judiciary Subcommittee, which was also holding hearings on the same subject, prefer a bill that would have the courts appoint the special prosecutor. That would make the prosecutor independent of the Democratic-controlled Congress as well as of the White House. But Richardson and other witnesses before the committees disputed the measure's constitutionality, arguing that only the Executive Branch is empowered to authorize and conduct prosecutions. Dean Roger C. Cramton of the Cornell Law School warned that the measure could lead to another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: A Sense of Strain | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...family and you come home tired at night to a husband who's studying, you just want to get out of there and relax with the girls." Relaxing with "the group" is something women can do as well as men. And if feminists are right, that women should naturally prefer the company of other women, then this way is as good...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Dame-ish Society | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...would really be interesting to know what TIME'S definition of "democracy" really is. If what we were living under for the past three years in Chile was a democracy, then I prefer to live under a military dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1973 | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...Reservations. Jaworski gets high marks from lawyers who know him. Although President Chesterfield Smith of the American Bar Association would prefer a completely independent prosecutor, he says of Jaworski: "It's a fabulous appointment. I have absolutely no reservations about his competency and integrity. He's a stand-up guy. If he's shoved, he will shove back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Stand-Up Texan for a Tough Task | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

Outside Quebec, politicians, regardless of party affiliation, heaved a sigh of relief when returns indicated a resounding defeat for the Parti Québécois. Said a satisfied Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who heads the national Liberal Party: "Quebeckers prefer Canada to separatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Non to Separatism | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

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