Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come these union-hating growers welcome Teamster advances rather than negotiate with a worker-controlled union? Growers, not surprisingly, prefer to deal with bosses who have nothing in common with the men and women who spend their lives bent over in the fields (When you read the terms of the contract this unholy alliance produced, you'll see just how well the Growers and Teamsters get along -- and why it only took them all of two days to write that contract...
Migrant workers often prefer to keep their children in the fields instead of in school. "I want my son to have a good education, but sometimes it's good for him to help with the work," says Miguel Merino, whose ten-year-old son Ricardo earns about $1.80 a day picking vegetables near Fresno. That togetherness is motivated not just by philoprogenitiveness but also by economic necessity. The average income of families living in California's 26 agricultural labor camps is $3,019 a year, and many migrant families must put every child to work simply to keep...
...temperature rises there to 110 degrees," said our guide. "So anyone who would prefer not to make the trip through can meet us in the air conditioned lounge over there where we'll be at the end of the run through the plant...
...formation of the two groups is not what the European Economic Community has in mind. It would prefer European computer firms to unite in one association producing a single line of compatible computers using the same hardware and software. Only through affiliation on this scale, the EEC believes, can European concerns compete strongly against IBM, which controls its huge market slice largely because of its sheer size. With revenues last year of $9.5 billion, IBM had enormous resources to commit to research and marketing. The revenues of the largest European-based computer maker, ICL, were about $450 million...
...evangelical event quite like this has been seen in the troubled Roman Catholic Church in recent years, but the ceremonies at Notre Dame last week made it clear that the fastest-growing force within the church is that of the Pentecostals-or, as many prefer to be called, Charismatics. Originating as an off-campus prayer group at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University in early 1967, the movement attracted only 90 people to its first Notre Dame meeting that year...