Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with five "families" that consisted of some of the "worst" patients* he and his colleagues had encountered at Hawaii State Hospital and other institutions. Most of them had been hospitalized from one to eleven times and seemed in need of recommitment when DeLeon suggested to them that they might prefer a house to a hospital...
...solidarity under a new name--The Real Paper--and only one member of the old staff, columnist George Kimbell, has seen fit to move his writing to The Boston Phoenix. Robert Rotner, former circulation director of The Phoenix and now publisher of The Real Paper, said he "would prefer not to speculate on why Kimbell did that." Rumors that Jon Landau, Phoenix music columnist, had deserted proved unfounded when his byline appeared once again in The Real Paper last week--discussing none other than those rumors...
...seems he would prefer that the Democratic Party be funded by Government contractors," Peretz said...
...amateur who shows up in Montreal or some other point with heroin in the hollowed-out heels of his shoes may not be able to find a buyer at any price. The professionals deal only with other professionals; they almost never move drugs on speculation, and they prefer to deal in lots of 50 or 100 kilos. The biggest operators are shadowy figures, little-known and rarely seen. Much of the international trade is still dominated by the fabled, Marseille-based French Corsican families who developed the deadly business back in the 1930s (see box, page...
...bored. "I had to create hurdles that would keep my mind from going to sleep at noon," he told TIME Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum last week. "I decided that rather than do another 'brilliant' movie for Debbie Reynolds, I'd prefer to conduct Brahms' Requiem in Kalamazoo and fail." So he conducted Brahms' Requiem in Kalamazoo and failed. Or maybe it was some other piece in some other town. In any case, it was tough starting. Eventually Previn won a regular post with the Houston Symphony. But after two lackluster seasons, he opted for the more...