Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy courses proliferate, classes in the harder subjects wither away. Calculus and Russian, two post-Sputnik specialties, are extinct. Only 35 students are braving physics this year. Few kids prefer the nononsense, four-year algebra-geometry-algebra-trigonometry sequence to the simpler math courses. The attrition rate in foreign languages is so great that after the first year, students in higher courses are combined in one class. High-ability kids are not taking high-level courses," says Accounting Teacher James Whitty. The students ask: Why should we?" The school's course brochure advises college-preparatory students that they "should make...
Liberals would obviously prefer a more reliable fifth vote on the council, but with their limited popular base, they will be lucky if Vellucci and four Cambridge Convention '77 candidates win tomorrow. A gregarious character but a political loner, Vellucci has served a unique function in Cambridge politics for liberals and the conservative Italian and Portuguese voters from whom he draws most of his strength. He has been the only neighborhood candidate so far who can embrace informally the Cambridge Convention '77 platform and still maintain his power base...
Both the use tax and Long's tax proposals have yet to be weighed by the conference committee. The House and Senate conferees were still dithering last week with peripheral conflicts, like whether new gas-guzzling cars should be heavily taxed, as Carter would prefer, or totally banned, as the Senate has voted. They have yet to tackle the more complex and crucial energy issues...
...United States Senate," Ambrose Bierce wrote at the turn of the century, "a quorum consists of the chairman of the Finance Committee and a messenger from the White House." Long would x prefer that the White House messengers stay home. Says he: "I'm 3 the President's friend, but I'm not his boy. I don't represent the President in the Senate. I represent the people of Louisiana...
Actually, capital investment has lately been picking up somewhat. In real terms-that is, discounted for inflation-it is increasing at an annual rate of about 7% to 8%. But Administration officials, who are as insistent on the need for investment as any businessman, would prefer an increase of 10% or more. That is essential to the Administration's economic strategy. At the moment, the economy is growing satisfactorily; real gross national product is expected to rise a bit more than 5% this year and about 4.5% in 1978. Though that is not enough to cut into the unemployment...