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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambassadors in Manhattan about arrangements for the meetings. The Israelis, who are eager to begin face-to-face negotiations as soon as possible, reportedly want to keep the indirect ones close to home (perhaps on Cyprus). The Arabs, who refuse to bargain at the same table with Israel, prefer New York. One possible compromise might be to begin the talks on Cyprus, then move to New York when foreign ministers start arriving for the General Assembly session in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Suez: Shalom and Salaam | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...most German women prefer more traditional attitudes. In a recent poll of German women, 68% considered unmarried career girls to be not quite normal, while 82% regarded the care of husband and child as their primary goal in life. Though 40% of all married women in West Germany hold jobs outside the home, most of them would be appalled if their Ehemann did the dishes or dusted the shelves. Says one well-educated Hamburg housewife: "If I saw my husband running around the house with a dust cloth in his hand, I couldn't go to bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Women's Lib, Continental Style | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Though Mellinger boasts that he is "interested in women dressing to please men," he also admits that he is "in the business of deceiving men like crazy." Many men prefer it that way. Mellinger claims that he receives dozens of letters a week testifying to "a wonderful evening I'll never forget," products that "have kept our marriage young and alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Passion Fashion | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...ratings and start programming for small and discriminating audiences. Primetime series seen by 25 million viewers on the commercial networks are often canceled as losers. But an opera attracting 500,000 cartridge patrons at $2 per rental might well earn a profit. Most experts assume that consumers will prefer to rent cassettes rather than buy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Cartridges: A Promise of Future Shock | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...least 38 different names for it, many of which suggest that there is damage to the brain. But even the term "minimal brain damage" is rejected by some physicians because it implies a physical injury, of which there is often little or no evidence. For this reason they prefer something like "learning disabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugs for Learning | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

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