Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President who performs his duty faithfully ... can have any leisure," wrote James K. Polk in 1848. "If he entrusts the details ... to subordinates, constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operation of the Government myself...
Still, there are airports that even the most demanding pilots do not fault. In the U.S., according to a TIME survey taken last week, airline captains prefer Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Miami and Dulles International outside Washington, D.C., because they are uncongested and have wide spaces between runways and taxiways. They also have excellent air traffic control and emergency equipment. Abroad, pilots like London's Heathrow, Amsterdam's Schipol, Paris' De Gaulle and the Frankfurt airport. These fields, like their American counterparts, have the best lighting, communications and radar equipment available...
...shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed]." Our guides unabashedly confessed to listening to the Voice of America. They prefer country-and-western music and Hollywood show tunes to The Ballad of Norman Morrison, a Vietnamese song commemorating the war protester who burned himself to death on the steps of the Pentagon in November...
Everyone knows that the Detroit Pistons are an unhappy basketball team. But to prefer jail to playing with them? For part of last week, that seemed to be the decision of Marvin Barnes, the $300,000-a-year Piston star. Barnes faces a jail term for violating parole, stemming from a 1974 conviction for assault, and he said he would rather begin serving his sentence now than perform with his team in the N.B.A. playoffs. His main gripe against the Pistons: for a player of his quality-and on a good night he can be incandescent-he does not play...
...youngest brother. She had probably not seen many foreigners before, much less in her own home, but not once did she betray any curiosity about who I was or what I was doing there or how I knew Arabic. She might have simply not cared, but I prefer to think that this girl of about 17 suppressed her interest out of a sense of propriety. This is the general feeling I got on the streets, where, while everyone would stare at my foreign clothes, features, and camera, or hush when they heard my English, only the men would come...