Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today the fortress mentality within the valley is beginning to ease, but for reasons having little to do with racial broadmindedness. First, rather than have their children bused under court order to schools in west Los Angeles, up to 45 minutes away, some white residents would prefer to have more blacks within the valley. Says Mrs. Bobbi Fiedler, who won election to the school board last spring on an antibusing platform: "Most of the people I know are more concerned about losing control of where their kids attend school than about who moves...
...conversation with President Carter was brutal. The President accused Israel of putting obstacles in the way of reaching a peace treaty. He warned, if you do not reach an agreement with us, you will remain isolated throughout the world. My response was, I prefer a split in relations between Israel and the U.S. rather than a Palestinian state. I was not too polite in my response to the President...
Whether Barre wins his gamble-that French voters will prefer his go-slow, common-sense policies to electorally inspired giveaways-will largely depend on external events. Will West Germany, France's largest trading partner, prime its economy sufficiently to create new jobs in France? Will Japanese exporters exercise enough restraint to prevent a trade war? Will the oil sheiks hold the line on prices at the end of the year? No one knows. But Barre, a former Common Market commissioner, has the advantage of at least understanding that France's economic destiny is not decided only in Paris...
...York Yankees yesterday at Chavez Ravine was everything a 1977 Dodgers' win was meant to be: brutally powerful and totally one-sided. Under manager Tommy LaSorda, the Dodgers are no longer the speed-and-fineesse team we came to know and love in the '60s. Now they prefer to hammer their way into our hearts...
...strengths and weaknesses of the book are those of the Backhousian method. Rather than patiently penetrating the mysteries of history step by painstaking step, as would a professional Sinologue, both the historian and the historian he is writing about prefer to assault the gloom head on, neglecting details and looking only for the general pattern that emerges. For Backhouse this meant creating new details each time he needed to give credence to an already created story. For Trevor-Roper this means emphasizing certain old details in order to give credence to a new story...