Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a pervasive feature of the G.I. scene since the mid-1960s, when canny Vietnamese (who prefer to chew betel nuts or smoke opium themselves) began cultivating the growing military market. Last-fall a Pentagon investigating team returned from Viet Nam with a report that drugs had become a serious "military problem." Last month the U.S. command in Saigon announced an all-out campaign against narcotics, complete with a 64-page directive and plans for ground and aerial searches for fields where marijuana is grown. Military surveys taken over the past two years have shown that from...
...students will be enrolled in a new S.U.N.Y. "nonresidential college" with administrative headquarters in the Albany area. Paying fees of slightly less than $20 per credit hour, they will be allowed to take courses at any of the university's 70 campuses across the state. If they prefer, they will do some or all of their work independently at home with mail correspondence courses, TV lectures and cassettes. To keep the program from turning into what one educator calls a way "to beat the draft by watching TV," students will have to appear at designated "learning centers" for tutoring...
...also refused to discount the possibility of another shot at the Presidency in 1972. "I certainly have not said I wouldn't be a peace party or third party candidate," McCarthy said. He admitted, though, that he would prefer to run as the Democratic Party candidate...
Averaging Zero. Laffer has constructed a theoretical model of the U.S. economy that he insists is "most likely better than any of the well-known larger models." It is certainly constructed on different lines. Laffer uses only raw economic data; he ignores the seasonal adjustments that more conventional economists prefer because he thinks they "smear things." He also disregards such matters as the likelihood of a steel strike next summer, the prospective size of the federal deficit and the amount of money saved in banks. "These things all averaged out to zero when we tracked their effect [on the overall...
...largedormitories again. Bunting stated that no more students could live off-off because it cost the College $1000 every time a student moved off. This was during the fund-raising campaign for Currier, which many of the students resented. They felt they had not been asked whether they would prefer a fourth house or apartments. They asserted that the College should absorb the $1000/ person deficit rather than build Currier...