Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly all Connection staffers would clearly prefer to have their old jobs back. Yet both the State Journal, owned by Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa, and the locally owned Capital Times have hired permanent replacements for some strikers, and negotiations to end the dispute are at an impasse...
...high, and Hungarian would win the blasphemy prize hands down. Also notable are Turkish rhymed insults, deadly serious Eskimo singing duels and a sneaky insult in Hindi that translates literally as "brother-in-law" but actually means "I slept with your sister." In general, says Aman, Anglo-Saxon cultures prefer insults dealing with excrement and body parts, Catholic countries are fond of blasphemy, and cultures of the Middle and Far East are partial to ancestor insults...
...French leftists now fear that they have been cheated of their chance to rise to power. They are alternately annoyed with Marchais, with Mitterand, or with both. Hard line Stalinists, of course, were glad to see the breakup of the leftist coalition, since they prefer ideological purity to compromise. But many Communists and Socialists are more interested in power than in ideology, and they were upset by the deliberate refusal of the left to combine for victory at the polls. Criticism forced Marchais to embark last month on a $2 million campaign to convince the party faithful that...
...authority regulations seem to block Hispanics at the door. Recently, Trillo went down his list past 80 minority families, mostly Hispanic, before reaching a white family whose preferential entry was required by Washington Elm's replacement rule designed to promote racial balance. Another problem arises when Hispanics who would prefer to stay near Columbia Street are assigned to the predominantly white Jefferson Park project in far-off North Cambridge. "How can I explain to them that 200 years of history means they have to go to Jefferson Park?" Trillo says...
Most Provocative New Pinup: Suzanne Somers of ABC'S Three's Company, who proves that gentlemen still prefer blondes, preferably dumb...