Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well. For example, they might recommend Fidel Castro, who startled the diplomatic world during his last visit to the United States by staying in a Harlem hotel instead of the Waldorf-Astoria. Or they might follow their predecessors of two years ago and consider Madama Binh. If they prefer to limit themselves to Americans, the seniors have a less charismatic but still meritorious group to choose from. Roger Baldwin '04, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, will probably be in town for Commencement anyway. Henry Aaron may be swinging through, too, now that he's over in the American...
Close Look. Around this time, many institutional buyers began to worry about the U.D.C. 's heavy borrowing. They prefer to limit their investment to 10% of any particular security and also seek geographical diversity; the U.D.C. and New York City together have accounted for about 30% of all tax-exempt bonds sold in the U.S. over the past few years. As money grew tight, investors began to look more closely ' at the U.D.C. 's unconventional moral-obligation bonds, which are tied not to specific projects but to the highly uncertain fortunes of the agency as a whole...
...Administration's arguments, while valid up to a point, are not totally convincing. For one thing, some Administration officials privately concede that the present government will probably fall sooner or later; to avoid any appearance of abandoning an ally, they would prefer to give it the extra aid anyway. U.S. policymakers, however, want to separate Cambodia from Viet Nam, where, the Administration feels, greater stakes are involved. It thus wants to convince the legislators that the extra $300 million of military aid to comparatively strong and well-equipped South Viet Nam would be of real help to Saigon...
...near Radcliffe Quad. Although affiliated with the Quad Houses--which provide maid service and maintenance as well as House activities--the cooperatives are self-contained in their day-to-day management, and the residents find themselves interacting very little with the Houses as they come to appreciate and prefer the more intimate environment...
...tired of superficial dining hall conversation. Adams House was very cliquish and I wanted to get away from it," while a Harvard senior will explain that he lives off campus "because people are monsters. A large group of people is just a large group of monsters. And I just prefer relating to monsters in small groups...