Word: prefered
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...choices patients make, U.S.-trained physicians feel that they are being underbid by the doctors from other countries. In the end, it is not simply a question of whether we have too many doctors in this country, but whether we have enough doctors in the right places. Most physicians prefer to practice in urban areas. Private practice physicians feel the big health plans are locking them out of their own markets, and driving down their incomes. Meanwhile, many people in tiny towns and rural areas cannot find a doctor nearby when they need help...
...Anyone can write a guest commentary, but we prefer that they come from members of the Harvard community with unique perspectives on issues particularly relevant to them...
While Perkins agrees with Wechsler that attention must be paid to the social influences affecting students, he has discovered that students grossly misperceive the amount that an average student should drink. That is, students assume that normal drinking levels are higher than what each individual would prefer. So the definition of moderate drinking does not only vary in regard to particular students' relationship with drinking, but individual students hold inaccurate assumptions about moderating their own behavior...
Areeda devoted nearly two decades to writing his 10-volume treatise Antitrust Law. The work, a standard in the field, is relied on extensively by lawyers and judges, so much so that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer once remarked that most lawyers would prefer to have on their side "two paragraphs of Areeda on antitrust than four Courts of Appeals and three Supreme Court Justices...
...describes. Also in 1986, scholars identified an ancient seal that had belonged to Baruch, son of Neriah, a scribe who recorded the prophecies of Jeremiah in 587 B.C. (Because Jews and Muslims don't consider the birth of Christ to be a defining moment in history, many scholars prefer the term B.C.E. to B.C. It stands for either "Before the Christian Era" or "Before the Common Era.") Says Hershel Shanks, founding editor of the influential magazine Biblical Archaeology Review: "Seldom does archaeology come face to face with people actually mentioned in the Bible...