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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus students face other practical problems, especially with reserve reading which may not be taken out overnight from Lamont and Hilles until 8:00 p.m. on weekdays. Commuter students therefore must stay on campus later than they would prefer in order to take their reading home. "The major problem living off campus has been the libraries." Ellis says. "The reserved reading thing is a drag. It creates a hassle...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: A House of One's Own: Off-Campus Life | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...around expanding educational opportunity for all students and on levels of federal financial assistance necessary to do so. However, rising college costs and recent sweeping attacks from such critics as Allan Bloom on the quality and content of college teaching have refocused the debate more along lines that Republicans prefer, on issues such as quality and "accountability...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Ivory Platforms | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration prefers to push for tough extradition treaties that can put drug thugs away in U.S. prisons. Extradition appears to be one weapon that the narcotraficantes truly fear. A cartel-sponsored group calling itself the Extraditables has waged a campaign of intimidation against law- enforcement officials, taking as its motto "We prefer a grave in Colombia to a jail in the United States." Although a frightened Colombian Supreme Court struck down the country's extradition treaty with the U.S. last June, even talk of extradition sends the cartel into a fury. On Jan. 24, Colombia's drug lords declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Thugs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...twoBlack women faculty members, Herron says shespends a disproportionate amount of her timedealing with women's issues. "Everything aboutBlack women comes to me," says Herron, whose fieldis not women's studies, but rather the epic inliterature. "I don't study it, I live it," shesays, adding that she would prefer to concentrateon her chosen field of study...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Tenuring Women Profs: Not the 7% Solution | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Special Concentrations' shrouded nature is partially deliberate. The department consciously does not advertise. "We're not pushing Special Concentrations, says Carol S. Thorne, the Special Concentrations Department staff assistant. "We prefer to be found...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: The Road Less Traveled By | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

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