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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Muse Y. Kwong '94 says that those without a job offer may prefer to immediately matriculate into business school...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Work First, Study Later | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Personally, I'm for both feminism and nonviolence. I admire the male body and prefer to find the penis attached to it rather than having to root around in vacant lots with Ziploc bag in hand. But I'm not willing to wait another decade or two for gender peace to prevail. And if a fellow insists on using his penis as a weapon, I say that, one way or another, he ought to be swiftly disarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism Confronts Bobbittry | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...rehashing the Gennifer Flowers mess in 1992, and he is now covertly feeding information and hard-to-find documents to reporters and congressional Republicans looking into the Whitewater affair. Brown's associate David Bossie has been to Little Rock several times digging for dirt. Evidently some Whitewater tale tellers prefer to deal with Brown & Co., figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Man Who Brought You Willie Horton . . . | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...those benefits will cost. A TIME/CNN poll found respondents profoundly ambivalent about genetic research and deeply divided over its applications. Asked whether they would take a genetic test that could tell them what diseases they were likely to suffer later in life, nearly as many people said they would prefer to remain ignorant (49%) as said they would like to know (50%). Most people strongly oppose human genetic engineering for any purpose except to cure disease or grow more food. A substantial majority (58%) think altering human genes is against the will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Genetic Revolution | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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