Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walls of bars and latrines through-out the country, whites infuriated blacks by scrawling such phrases as "Niggers eat shit" and "I'd prefer a gook to a nigger...
...their sophistication, Swedes seem to prefer politicians with a down-home touch. Tage Erlander, a big, shambling, avuncular sort, who retired as Prime Minister in 1969 after 23 years on the job, was perfectly typecast. But Erlander's hand-picked successor-Olof Palme, 43, a sophisticated aristocrat-was a far cry from that grass-roots stereotype. "Palme doesn't even look like a Swede," says one of his friends. "He's not tall, not blond. He's smart and he shows it. Will this go down with the Swedes? Will they take this international character...
Different Priorities. Russian medicine differs greatly from American in emphasis and approach, especially in regard to anesthesia. Russian doctors prefer local anesthetics, particularly in appendectomies and uncomplicated deliveries. Says Polina Kachalova, senior physician at Leningrad's No. 2 Hospital: "We believe general anesthetics are more harmful and that recovery is quicker with local anesthetics." Though surgery is often more traumatic as a result, few Russians seem to complain...
...Offers the nation's only two-year law degree designed for students who want legal training but prefer to use it in business or some other extralegal career...
...personalities that Rey manages to portray simultaneously. As his money and his vigor recede, Don Lope pursues the bewildered girl and overtakes her. Once seduced, Tristana is a figure of metastasizing vengeance. When she becomes the mistress of a young artist (Franco Nero), Don Lope shouts in misery, "I prefer tragedy to ridicule . . ." The girl awards him both. Her flight with the artist is ended by a disease that costs her a leg. Convalescing in the house of her for mer guardian, Tristana hears Lope, stricken with a heart attack, rattling in his bed. She starts to call a doctor...