Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restaurants, including Hardee's, Roy Rogers and Kentucky Fried Chicken, that are switching back to the older version of the soft drink. The changeover at McDonald's will be completed by the end of the month. Said Spokesman Robert Keyser: "We want to offer our customers what they prefer." According to the most recent national sales data, that is Classic Coke over the sweeter stuff...
...Brits don't like to invent solutions. They prefer to muddle through to one. This one took a few centuries, but they managed it: take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed...
Aside from the abstract merits of sports, I believe that there is nothing frivolous about students exhibiting enthusiastic support for their teams. Although it seems Kurzman would prefer that students continue to wallow in the self-absorbed reserve that permeates this campus, enthusiasm for athletics provides students with a needed release from the tensions of Harvard life. Damn his notion that such enthusiasm is "frivolous;" we're college students and we'll never have the opportunity to be frivolous again! If Kurzman believes there is no place for frivolity in the life of a serious intellectual then he has obviously...
...effective, is not very wide. The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself, and Katz has a near Warholian indifference to meaning: "I'd like to have style take the place of content, or the style be the content . . . I prefer it to be emptied of meaning, emptied of content." This is known as having your abstract cake and eating...
There are no MWIM (married white Irish male), DJF (divorced Jewish female), or BiBM (bisexual Black male) on the pages of this University publication. "We don't accept abbreviations because we prefer something that is a reflection of the individual running the ad and not a standard SWM [single white male]," says Hillary A. Rao, the classified advertising manager of Harvard Magazine...