Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would prefer to trust the judgment of elected officials. We can vote for a new President, for new Congressmen. How do we vote to get new management for the New York Times? No one can have freedom without responsibility...
...flights: each youth-fare passenger gets a book of coupons good for 10% to 50% discounts in restaurants and discotheques. Alitalia announced the best cost-per-mile bargain: a $199 round trip between New York and Rome. Icelandic Airlines, dubbed the "hiphop airline" by the hairy hordes who prefer it. rolled out the cheapest European youth fare: a $185 round trip between Aug. 1 and Sept. 10. and $165 the rest of the year...
...there is finally talk of changing the system. Goldberg proposed that Congress take more of a hand in deciding what is to be classified. Several Congressmen, in fact, are preparing to introduce legislation. Hubert Humphrey wants to establish a joint congressional committee to review classified material. Edmund Muskie would prefer an independent review board with the power to make documents public after two years. Even if Congress does not want to venture into the thicket of classified documents, the Executive Branch could impose stiff penalties on bureaucrats who classify more than they have to. At a time when Government credibility...
...traces his interest in shipping to ] 948, when he fled the threatening Communists in Shanghai, where he worked in a local bank. Settling in Hong Kong, he opened a small import-export business. Relatives urged him to invest in real estate, but he had learned the hard way to prefer investments that were not tied down or vulnerable to government takeover. "I wanted movable assets," he explains. Without knowing port from starboard, he scraped together the down payment for a Liberty-type freighter...
...have tried not to think about the matter for practical reasons: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait help support Egypt and Jordan with annual subsidies out of oil revenues. How they get their oil to Western Europe's thirsty countries, with the Suez Canal closed, is something that they would prefer to keep to themselves...