Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build upon NASA's experience, they are likely to have an edge in the launch market. Despite the shuttle accident, the U.S. has the best reliability record for space shots. Moreover, American firms may benefit because the U.S. makes nearly 70% of the world's satellites. Most customers prefer to send up their satellites from the country of manufacture, because of lower costs and greater technological compatibility with the launching service. Says Andrea Caruso, director general of the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization: "Most Europeans would still prefer to launch with the U.S., but the U.S. is going to have...
...gets his glass of Amber. It is red in cast, bread fresh, with the body of a weight lifter: serious beer. A glass of Gold is similarly muscular, though not so massive. Lighter, notes the visitor, "though of course" -- he spells out the word that self-respecting beer drinkers prefer not to pronounce...
...similar system operates at Princeton, although many students prefer to join one of the school's 13 eating clubs, which are the focus of Princeton social life. The clubs, some co-ed, some all male, some selective, some not, operate their own dining services for members and cost little more than the normal Princeton meal contract...
...known as downsizing, rationalizing, streamlining and, perhaps most commonly, restructuring. With a bow to the diet culture, some prefer to call it just plain slimming down. By whatever name it goes, a compulsion is sweeping through corporate America to bring about fundamental, long-lasting changes in the way it does business. U.S. corporations have always undergone periodic cutbacks in times of recession or strain, but this time the tone and scope of the effort are vastly different. Says Keith Stock, a partner in the Manhattan-based McKinsey & Co. management consulting firm: "What we're seeing is nothing less than...
...Obviously, though, the university disapproves of the admission policies of these clubs. We have stated several times that we would prefer that the clubs be coeducational," he said...