Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland has a long way to go, reported the Gallup poll this week. Asked whether they would "personally prefer" Dick Nixon or Bill Knowland as the G.O.P. presidential nominee in 1960, Republican voters replied: Nixon 63%, Knowland 23%, don't know 14%. But even more indicative: of Republican voters polled, only 2% said they did not know Nixon, 28% said they did not know Knowland...
...press quickly picked up the story, but not without an argument. U.P. Staff Correspondent H. D. Quigg wondered whether his lordship would prefer to have the Gettysburg Address begin: "Eighty-seven years ago our fathers founded here a new nation." And what about the about, asked Quigg, in the Biblical phrase, "And the glory of the Lord shone round about them"? But Lord Conesford stuck to his guns. Last week, invited to appear on CBS-TV's The Last Word, he landed in the U.S. to continue the attack...
Like most department stores, Macy's at first used FIFO-first in, first out-which computes the year's profits on the basis of the first stock bought during the year. Though FIFO is less advantageous during inflation, when costs are steadily rising, many stores prefer it because it guards them against higher taxes should inventory costs begin to fall. Companies cannot switch back and forth; Government permission is needed to do so. Gambling on continued price rises, Macy's asked permission to use LIFO in 1942. The Government refused, but in 1947 allowed a Baltimore department...
...Thus was born the notion of Kreuger as a dedicated, enigmatic Caesar of international finance. It was on another trip that Kreuger made his only recorded witticism. When asked by a ship reporter if he had come to marry an American heiress, the lifelong bachelor replied: "No, I much prefer a Swedish match...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...