Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHINA'S ROLE IN ASIA. "We prefer a three-power game rather than a two-power game in Asia. The game between the U.S. and Russia is a bit dangerous. Now, with a third player, the game is fair. There are no Chinese soldiers outside China and no Chinese foreign bases. If the U.S. and Russia do the same, there is no problem...
Some slight differences, however, have been detected in the behavior of the sexes in the voting booth. Women seem to prefer the safe-and-sound candidate, the one least likely to embark on war or some other hazardous undertaking. They are a bit less racially prejudiced when they vote, a bit more internationally minded. Their response to charisma is apparently overrated. Younger women may jump and squeal, older women may gush over a candidate like John Lindsay; but once they go to vote, they are less susceptible to their emotions. It was not the glamorous ex-PT boat commander, John...
Nature may prefer women, but virtually every culture has been partial to men. That contradiction raises an increasingly pertinent question (as well as the hackles of militant feminists): Are women immutably different from men? Women's Liberationists believe that any differences-other than anatomical-are a result of conditioning by society. The opposing view is that all of the differences are fixed in the genes. To scientists, however, the nature-nurture controversy is oversimplified. To them, what human beings are results from a complex interaction between both forces. Says Oxford Biologist Christopher Ounsted: "It is a false dichotomy...
...unexpected loss to Harvard in the ECAC semifinals last year was due to the physical pounding it had absorbed in the quarterfinal game against RPI. Even though the Terriers destroyed the Engineers 11-0, in that game, and again won easily at Boston, 7.3, last month, they probably would prefer to play someone else if they could. RPI, who slipped into the seventh seed despite a mediocre record against a relatively undemanding schedule, does not have a reputation as an especially clean hockey team, and is probably aware that it has little, if any chance, of advancing very...
...only previous experience, Bartleby tells Scofield, was working in the dead-letter division of the post office. Soon after Scofield hires him, Bartleby begins to retreat inside himself. Asked to perform some routine task, he replies, "I'd prefer not to," and never provides further amplification. He lives entirely in the office and becomes for Scofield a burden, an obsession and, finally, an inescapable moral responsibility. Bartleby will not leave when he is dismissed, so Scofield moves the whole office to new quarters. Bartleby remains behind, but he is like an embodiment of some old guilt that Scofield...