Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exist before Thatcher came to office. In fact, in 1979 only 30% of the British were considered middle class; now nearly half the country fits that description. And through incentives to small business, Thatcher has opened doors to entrepreneurs. For all that, some of Thatcher's countrymen clearly prefer the older Britain, slower paced, caring and imbued with a frayed gentility. Even some Conservatives have expressed concern that Thatcher has seemed callous toward the poor and the disadvantaged. For her part, the Prime Minister argues that she has turned a "lame-duck economy into a bulldog economy." Only vigorous growth...
...child-care scene. The choices, she has learned, are disappointingly few. Only two day-care centers in Chicago accept infants; both are expensive, and neither appeals. "With 20 or 30 babies, it's probably all they can do to get each child's needs met," says McPherson. She would prefer having a baby-sitter come to her home. "That way there's a sense of security and family." But she worries about the cost and reliability: "People will quit, go away for the summer, get sick." In an ideal world, she says, she would choose someone who reflects...
...Richard Celeste's denials of a "Hart-type personal problem" as justification for its story about his alleged affairs. In a LIFE interview, Jesse Jackson's wife warned that her husband's fidelity was nobody's business. Said she: "I don't believe in examining sheets." Nonetheless, candidates who prefer to devote their time offering visions of the future are likely to spend much of the present talking about themselves, their character and their credibility...
...much prefer the directing role and the writing. I like having control of the project," Litt says. Which is not to say that the Cleveland native ignores acting. The North House resident has appeared in Candide, School for Wives, the Gilbert and Sullivan production of Iolanthe. She has also directed an eclectic group of plays, from Peter Pan to the medieval mystery play The Second Shepherd's Play to her own Epiphany and The Unsupervised Infant...
Trumpbour says that the university would prefer for everybody to be passive and complacent, and he says that the thought that universities in general do breed the "assembly line" mentality that urges students to "punch into class and not challenge things." The goal of the essays is to provide students and other interested people a critical analysis into the University, and to spark activism and raise questions about policy...