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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professor Wilson recently described accurately and eloquently in a different context the weight of peer pressure on undergraduates in critically responsible positions. It is a pressure that might in certain circumstances be very awkward to deal with in the use of master keys in our communities. I should prefer to avoid that risk, concern for my responsibility will end only if the President decides explicitly to undertake...

Author: By Zeph STEW Art, | Title: Security in the Houses | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

...Those whom you call abortion foes prefer to be known as pro-life people. Who told you that the Right to Life movement is Catholic-dominated? In Michigan and elsewhere, Lutherans, Christian Reformed. Mormons, Baptists, Presbyterians and others are prominent in this ecumenical movement. As the vice chairman of the Kalamazoo area Right to Life chapter, I can assure you that this Episcopalian is not dominated by trie Roman Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1973 | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...coach Bob Harrison or any of his players about their audiences, they will say that they often prefer to play on the road simply because they find enthusiasm there. One of the things that particularly bothers Harrison about Harvard is that so few fans turn out to cheer Harvard basketball...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Echoes of Apathy | 2/15/1973 | See Source »

Jackson said that the ex-con is more afraid of society than society is of him. Many ex-cons prefer to go back to prison in order to avoid making choices they would otherwise face there, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett House Hosts Ex-Cons In Discussion of Penal Reform | 2/14/1973 | See Source »

...many want to limit it. This adds to the consternation over Nixon's impounding. As Jackson pointed out: "Any actual test of power is likely to depend on the imperatives of events and contemporary imponderables rather than on abstract theories of law." For this reason, constitutional authorities would prefer that the issue be ajudicated not in the courts but in the rough and tumble of the political arena. where a workable compromise can be reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Issue of Impounding | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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