Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Square's numerous specialty bookstores might be the place. Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) is a poet hang-out with its selection of almost 10,000 poetry books and if they don't have the collection you're looking for, they'll order it. If you prefer your poetry in the flesh, contemporary poets come here to autograph books and be seen. If you prefer your reading to be in another language, Schoenhof's Foreign Books (76A Mt. Auburn St.) may very well have it, and will also send away for any title you request...
...prefer your trips overseas, two summer school classes may be your ticket abroad. Econ S-1258, "Economic Growth in Modern China: Quantitative Aspects," will take a close look at development in the People's Republic of China. Under the tutelage of Harvard Visiting Professor of Economics Subramanian Swamy, the course will cover income distribution, quality of life and regional disparities...
...Vermont skiwear maker who employed women to knit in their homes. The department charged the company with violating minimum-wage provisions. The law under which the department acted was passed in 1942 to prevent the exploitation of children and sweatshop workers in city tenements. The women in Vermont prefer working at home, where they can be with their children and do not have to travel to a factory, especially in winter over icy roads. Finally, the Labor Department rescinded...
Lobbyists usually prefer to work in the shadows, but last week they found themselves blinking uncomfortably in the light. In a moment that merged two historical events, the most radical tax-reform plan in decades arrived on the Senate floor the very week that the chamber was opened up for the first time to live television...
...traditional tenure policy has been yielding fewer and fewer top academic guns eager for the opportunity of supping at the Faculty Club and purchasing overpriced Boston real estate. Second, Harvard has become a junior faculty farm team for other universities, providing them top tenurable scholars who will often prefer to stay put when Harvard finally gets around to recognizing their talents. Third, Harvard may also be losing junior talent who prefer to work at a school where they have a shot at tenure, instead of setting up shop in Cambridge for seven years and then folding the tent once Harvard...