Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing, on curriculum and on extracurricular work during an entire academic generation. It is not surprising that the Planning Department changed little during that generation: Nash, a former student of Isaacs, was brought into the department while Isaacs was chairman; Vigier was similarly recruited. All three upheld, and still prefer, a traditional course of study aimed at training planners for government, for large land developments, and to a lesser degree, for the private sector...
...least. "In our last fight," he told cheering Nigerian fans during his second tour of the country, "I gave Joe Frazier such a beating, he was in the hospital for four weeks." It was the referee, he complained, who had robbed him of the heavyweight championship. "I would prefer only international officials from France, the United Kingdom and Nigeria to handle a rematch." Presumably the fight would be held in the auditorium of the United Nations General Assembly...
...cleanest way to reach it. We believe in the roses and the toads and the arts, and know that salvation, or a scrap of it, is to be found only in them. In the world of politics we see no salvation, we are not to be diddled, but we prefer the less bad to the more bad, and so become patriots, while keeping our brains and hearts intact...
Lord and Lady Clark sampled the Harvard Student Agencies' finest Brie and exotic liquors. Clark continued to expand on the lecture topic to hordes of admirers, but wearily confessed, "I'm too old to do research. I prefer to pick people's brains...
...inhabitants live in squalor, one out of every four of them has risen above the crime, noise and filth of street shanties. They occupy, with the city's tacit approval, hovels that they build on the flat roofs of solid buildings. While these penthouse poor prefer the roofs of small, low structures (where limited space holds fewer families and gives greater privacy), they gladly share the tops of taller buildings with each other, humming elevator equipment, water tanks and thickets of TV antennae...