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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who prefer games with more action, Electronic Art's One-on-One Basketball ($39.95) puts you in a head-to-head match between Larry Byrd and Julius Erving. You control one of the players and can match your skills against the computer or a friend. Although it won't improve your on-court dribbling and shooting, One-on-One can certainly keep your keyboard/mouse fingers in shape...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: If Only the Series Were a Simulation ... | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...there is something else. "I prefer to take a man home in black tie, not a sweater," confesses Fashion Designer Barbara De Vries. "I love it. The black and white is very sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Tie Still Required | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Most employers--especially in business--prefer a one-page resume. These employers want an effectively organized and concise presentation of the most pertinent information about you. Employers in education, public service, and human services do not seem to have a strong preference, but a concise presentation shows that you recognize the value of their time...

Author: By Martha P. Leape, | Title: Writing the one-page story of your life | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Leave-takers spend their time working on kibbutzim, clerking in law offices, backpacking through Southeast Asia, picking apples in the French countryside, and studying at other schools. The most popular time to leave Harvard, according to statistics recently published by OCS, is after the sophomore year, and most students prefer two semesters away from Cambridge...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Getting Away From it All | 10/9/1986 | See Source »

Although pagers can provide tone or voice messages, many drug merchants prefer the digital version that displays a caller's return telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to thwart easy tracing. But not always: "We do get some strange or spooky clients in here," says one Miami beeper salesman. "I've never seen so many people who didn't have driver's licenses, even though I just saw them drive up in a Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smart: Drug dealers turn on to beepers | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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