Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explaining the financial situation of the Dental Health Service, he said that it was almost entirely self-sufficient, drawing money for only a small fraction of its administrative costs from Hygiene Department funds. Fees for dental care cover all other costs. Dr. Dunning continued that he would prefer not to increase fees to facilitate broadened services, and said he was hopeful that some arrangement could be worked...
...proper burden on the sub-committee," he added, "If it was going to prefer criminal charges, was to formulate questions so that they would fall, at least approximately, within the scope of the known limits of its authority...
...Earl Warren with 16%. Goodie Knight stood a forlorn fourth with 6%. Forty-one percent of the committee members foresaw a primary fight next year between delegations pledged to Nixon and Knight. As between those delegations, 61.7% said they would favor Nixon's, only 22% said they would prefer Knight...
...jury admitted that the public's baffled bewilderment indicates that something important is missing in most of today's art. Said former Louvre Curator René Huyghe: "Art today aims to shock. In effect the artist spits on the canvas, delivers a punch in the eye. I prefer fruit on a napkin." Italy's leading Abstract Painter Afro in part agreed: "There is too much concern with surface effects, an attempt to make them appear 'modern,' even if this means contempt for color. What is missing is a maturing process, a depth of spirituality...
...then take their girls to Boston and spend $10 to $20 for an evening's entertainment. Undergraduates who, after buying their date's football ticket, still have $3.60 to spend can push their way into a House Dance. But students who dislike gaudiness, crowds, or exorbitant prices would still prefer to remain in their rooms, where they can entertain inexpensively and maturely...