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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes even more insensitive to others in a doomed universe whose motto is "Do your own time": trust no one, freeze your mind, be indifferent. Unequipped for normal society, he may well be headed back to prison as soon as he leaves. In fact, he may come to prefer it: Why struggle in a world that hates ex-convicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...prohibiting a rail strike until March 1. Congress and the Administration also created a quasi-governmental body, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., to take over intercity passenger trains, starting May 1. It will relieve private lines of the $200 million annual loss they suffer from passenger service they would prefer not to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What Congress Did For Business | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Those who prefer their sexual metaphor less blatant will do well to invest their three dollars in some good hard-core pornography. For if you think you can get some fun out of Ryan's Daughter you should forget it. Outrage is the dominant emotion you will feel on leaving the theatre, straight or stoned-outrage at having let four hours of your precious inalienable life be filched away by doddering sentimentalists. It's scarcely believable that Irish scenery so gorgeously lit could be rendered so sickening by the likes of Robert Bolt, who collaborated (for once the right word...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Films A Tale Told by an Idiot RYAN'S DAUGHTER at the Charles Cinema till Doomsday | 1/14/1971 | See Source »

Five student members of the Committee on Graduate Education will be chosen by the Dean of the Faculty, unless certain graduate school committees would prefer and election...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Quick! Is It Breathing? Elect It. | 1/13/1971 | See Source »

...interviews this Fall-in which he frankly said that he would prefer to remain at the Law School-Bok talked at greatest length about the specific problems of the Law School and, in particular, his interest in curricular reform...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghae, | Title: It's Official: Derek Bok | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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