Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prefer Possession...
...patterns of earlier years still hold true in the Shklar household where Mrs. Shklar and her husband (a professor at Harvard Medical School) don't have time to go out, except separately, each with a different child, to concerts and the like. An extremely close-knit family, they prefer to stay home and make their own music. Predictably brushing off her own merits as a pianist, Mrs. Shklar is lavish with her praise of the musical talents of the rest of the family. "I'm square," she says repeatedly, and this is the same term she uses for her taste...
...successful revival of a play from a former era often says more about the audience than it does about the playwright. Nine playgoers out of ten would much prefer to have their hearts warmed and their curiosities aroused than to have their minds challenged. Clifford Odets knew that. He knew that the public roots for a fallen hero to make a comeback. He knew that playgoers would wonder if an alcoholic could stay sober at a crucial moment in his career. He intuited that every woman in the audience would ask herself if she would suffer and support such...
...demand for women. In pediatrics, seemingly viewed almost as an extension of motherhood, supply has responded to demand and fully one-fifth of all pediatricians are women. Obstetrics and gynecology, the second specialty, is medicine's catch-22. The Engleman study and others show clearly that women prefer female obstetrician-gynecologists, but only a scant 6.8% of doctors in women's medicine are women...
Those studies, together with a 1970 Senate investigation of the Pill's side effects, caused some alarm, and the percentage of women using family-planning clinics who prefer the Pill fell from 76% to 70% (use of the intrauterine device, or IUD, and the diaphragm increased as a consequence). The wide concern about the Pill's side effects made many doctors more selective about which women should take them, and in what strength they should be prescribed. Physicians, however, generally are persuaded that the Pill is safe for most women, and so are researchers. They are working...