Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidency. After analyzing the nuances of electoral rules and regulations, the committee members declared that they plan to launch a campaign without their candidate's consent. Their hope was that Iacocca would eventually give in to the pressure of voter support and join the race. "Mr. Iacocca would probably prefer for us to cease and desist," conceded the group's chairman, Michigan State Representative Richard Fitzpatrick. But, he added, "we need the best leadership we can find. And where America's future is concerned, we think the voters shouldn't take no for an answer...
...many letters a week a secretary has been handling on her word processor. The manager can compare one worker objectively with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer the new evaluative technique because they see it as a matter-of-fact measurement of their output as opposed to a boss's personal opinion. Says R. Douglas MacIntyre, a senior vice president of Management Science America, which develops monitoring programs: "We are letting management make better, quicker decisions based on facts...
YMCA officials dismiss charges that they are crowding private gyms. Commercial operators, says John Ouellet, president of the Los Angeles YMCA, would no doubt prefer the Y to "put up a building as dilapidated as the one we tore down." When private clubs fail, he contends, the reason is often poor management, not competition from a well-equipped Y. If anyone is encroaching, say YMCA officials, it is the private operators. The Y has been touting fitness for more than a century. Declares Thomas Hargrave Jr., president of the Washington YMCA: "We started the health-and-fitness business...
...past five years, the Reagan Justice Department has argued that the civil rights laws offer relief not to large groups of people but only to specific individuals who can prove that they were victims of racial bias. Hiring goals and timetables -- or, as the Reaganauts prefer to call them, quotas -- are a form of "reverse discrimination" against whites that is "immoral," contends Attorney General Edwin Meese...
What they have begun to mean to American restaurateurs is a new way to attract the gastronomically curious and diet-conscious, who prefer to sample a progression of small dishes rather than limit tasting options to one large main course. Labeled grazers by the restaurant industry, this generally young and trendy clientele is flocking to tapas bars from coast to coast...