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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another alternative solution to the impending gasoline shortage is statutory lowering of freeway speed limits. I would prefer a few more driving hours to missing a trip this summer because I cannot purchase sufficient gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1973 | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...Watergate disclosures, and he uses war-born language to describe it. "My friends and family are really pleased," he says. "We can't wait for the body count to get higher." Despite this, Driver does not want to see Nixon impeached, or even implicated further. "I'd prefer to see Nixon kept in office, but with his powers reduced by a more effective Congress," he explains. "We'd have 3½ years of lame-duck drift, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: How Main Street Views Watergate | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...NIXON AND WATERGATE. "I do not want Nixon to resign. Agnew is worse than Nixon. I prefer a weakened Nixon in front of me-he will not have the same prestige as before-to a new Agnew in back of me ... Your people cannot be moved by the killing of yellow people. The killing of Cambodians means nothing to them. Watergate is more important to them, and we put our hope in the Watergate affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Cambodia's Sihanouk: I Am Very Angry | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

GEORGE F. BENNETT '33, the University's retiring treasurer, reportedly owns no life insurance. "I prefer to put my capital on the stock exchange," he explains...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Good Hands People | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...democracy, because power remains in the hands of the same people who always held it. But by sucking protesters into the system, institutionalizing protest helps defuse demands for University democracy. Nobody seized Mass Hall this year. It seems unlikely that any of Bok's administrators lack life insurance. They prefer to play it safe...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Good Hands People | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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