Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JONES SAID HE thought a more manageable program might meet the needs of more students. "If one has to speed a good deal more money, I'd prefer that we sit down and try to solve as many problems as we can," he remarked...
...that catered mainly to casual lovers and transient salesmen. Wilson was among the first to foresee that the fast post-World War II rise in U.S. personal income would lead to a rapid expansion in both business and leisure travel. He also sensed that people on the move would prefer to stay in lodges that offered, in addition to a place to park their car, a standardized level of cleanliness, comfort and food at moderate prices. (In 1971, the average price for a room in a Holiday Inn was $15.06, v. $16.60 for motels nationally and $20.33 for leading hotels...
...granted, mostly to people who already own inns and are proven winners. The cost of land and construction is entirely financed by franchisees, who put up about a quarter to a third of the amount and borrow the rest from banks, insurance firms or mortgage companies. Lenders prefer prospective franchisees over independent owners because there is less risk of failure with a motel (hat is backed by the resources of a chain...
...self-indulgence. Harvard's ongoing stake in the corporate status-quo-the network of personal relationships and common assumptions that allies the University too often with Wall Street and State Street is demonstrated by its failure even to vote in favor of the Gulf disclosure resolution. That Gulf would prefer to "tell all" rather than have Harvard's .3 per cent voted against it shows that the precedent of an anti-management vote by this University was more threatening to them than whatever information they are protecting. By abstaining, Harvard pulled more of a cop-out than...
...Funeral. This does not mean that all patients must be drugged into insensibility. Rather, each should be asked what degree of consciousness he prefers. Some want to be alert despite pain so they can talk or think. Others prefer undermedication for more complicated reasons. In one case, a girl who needed morphine to curb the pain of advanced kidney disease asked instead for the less potent drug she had been given at earlier stages of her illness. The weaker drug reminded her of the hopeful mood she had had when she was less seriously ill. Though...