Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nation is that the majority of Americans yearn to escape urban areas not for suburbia, but for the truly open spaces. While only one out of every three Americans now lives in towns, villages or rural areas, more than half in the poll sample said that they would prefer such a setting. That figure is swelled by the ranks of black city dwellers (70%) who want to move out. Conclude the editors: "The figures suggest that if the American people could follow their inclinations, the population of our cities would be cut in half. The proportion of suburbanites would remain...
Liebow insists that his proposal would not increase the number of mothers on welfare, currently put at 2.8 million. He cites recent detailed surveys showing that while only 400,000 of those welfare mothers hold full-or part-time jobs, most non-working mothers would prefer to join the regular work force. Liebow's approach places the President in a quandary: How can he strike down a proposal that is so inimical to his own philosophy without seeming to suggest to hundreds of thousands of American mothers that housewifing is not a full-time...
...mostly because of physical or emotional problems, including drug addiction. The Job Corps, which houses youths in camps in order to take them out of a ghetto environment while providing training, has attracted only 21,000 to its 71 centers, which have a capacity of 25,000. Many youngsters prefer even slums to the barracks-like camps...
Since I am a student in the department, and am not so ignorant that I cannot learn from Bowles's case, I prefer to have my name withheld. A Graduate Student in Economics
...alto with flute obbligato was sung beautifully and smoothly though with little contrast within each voice. John Ferris, the choirmaster, seems to prefer building with blocks of sound, drawing contrast from combinations of timbre rather than individual efforts within a given part. This is on excellent policy when dealing with an acoustical entity as dry as Memorial Church. In a building that holds over 1000 people and offers no echo, terraced dynamics and antiphonal contrast are the surer path to expressive variety...