Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently the former director, Charles O. Honnet, who is now in Corvalis, Oregon, without a telephone and unreachable for comment, hired more students than in the past because he thought most students prefer summer jobs to work during the year...
...Waves. Then Carter emerged victorious from the Democratic primary wars, talking of using taxes to redistribute the nation's wealth, creating standby wage-price controls, launching expensive new social programs and generally impressing Wall Street as being antibusiness. Though far from satisfied with Ford, investors prefer him to Carter, regarding the President as a man likely to follow a steady course and not make unwanted waves. As Carter's campaign gained, stumbled, then gained again, Wall Street marked time, waiting to see if Ford could catch...
...apparent that the three men in the room lacked the basic background in feminist literature required for participation in the latter. I made it clear that I was prepared to teach either, though I would have been dishonest not to admit that in a small seminar format, I would prefer to participate in the more advanced course. (I also teach in a large and more descriptive lecture course, Biology and Social Issues; I and five others lead the discussion sections, of which one explores the feminist perspective). The fact that the three men recognized that their level of interest...
...athletic events in a career that includes reporting on the death of a Brooklyn bookie and a volume on student unrest at Columbia in 1968. "You're better able to write about sports when you've covered the rest of the world," he says. "But I prefer athletes to politicians. They're more direct and less devious." His next book, due in the spring, will chronicle America's love for baseball, from the semi-pro Berkshire (Mass.) Brewers to a Little League team in Puerto Rico...
Carter's support among Catholics has slipped by 3 percentage points to 45%, while his backing among Protestants has remained almost unchanged at 42%. He has picked up strength among nonwhites, 71% of whom now favor him, v. 66% in August. But only 39% of the white voters prefer him, down from 44% in the previous survey...