Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some dorms which can field a five-man team may prefer more traditional basketball, they agree that three-man hoop does have its advantages. "We would prefer playing five-man full court, but that's only because we have five guys," says Wen Shen '91, a Straus resident. "But in the end, the three-man league is probably better...
Many U.S. record executives prefer a tougher solution. They are urging Congress to force the DAT manufacturers to equip their machines with a computer chip that will block the copying of prerecorded music altogether. But while Congress considers the matter in its usual deliberate fashion, some DAT makers are accelerating their assault on the U.S. market. Their reasoning: if enough Americans buy DAT recorders, Congress will be loath to interfere with how they are used...
...rises or falls 75 points or more in a single day. Moreover, both the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have imposed daily limits on how much the prices of stock-index futures can fluctuate. But even the Brady task force says it would prefer to let the marketplace make its own decision about portfolio insurance, rather than try to ban it outright. As Robert Gordon, president of Twenty-First Securities, puts it, "You can't outlaw a strategy...
...move the U.S. in a new direction. In a survey for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* 50% of Iowa Republicans say they would like the next President to "follow different policies" from the Reagan Administration's, compared with 39% who would stay on the same course. Nationally, Republican voters prefer the status quo over change by 58% to 32%. Iowa Democrats also display a marked contrast to voters nationwide: in Iowa, 93% favor a change from the Reagan era, against 77% nationally...
...higher spending, 23% for less and 45% for no change. But in Iowa, only 19% of Republicans favor more defense, and 36% want less. Democrats nationwide split roughly by thirds on the same question; in Iowa, half the Democrats support a cut in Pentagon spending, and only 15% prefer an increase. Asked if they favor or oppose U.S. aid to the contras in Nicaragua, Republicans nationally support the program, 54% to 32%; Iowa Republicans divide narrowly against it, 42% to 40%. While Democrats in general oppose contra assistance by 2 to 1, the ratio in Iowa...