Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty members teaching Saturday classes with enrollments over 50, 43 percent insisted that no change in the present policy of attendance is warranted. No teacher questioned said he would prefer to replace his weekend classes with afternoon sessions on Tuesday or Thursday...
...large, the women in Tokyo agreed that the principal problem still facing Japanese women is men. In many rural districts, they pointed out, Japanese fathers are still selling their daughters into slavery, often for as little as $15. Japanese husbands still prefer the company of geisha girls to that of their wives. Women still get only half the pay of men for the same jobs, and more than half of Japanese marriages are still arranged by contract without regard to the bride's choice. Nevertheless, doughty Socialist Diet Member Ichiko Kamichika told her sisters, "The Japanese woman of today...
Most dealers prefer cans for the obvious reasons - less shelf space, no breakage, no bottle-handling and refunds. But there are still two big holdouts: Coca-Cola, with about half of U.S. soft-drink sales, and Pepsi-Cola, with about 12% of all sales. Pepsi tried cans in 1950 while Mack was still its boss, but abandoned them when some blew up because of the high carbonation. But if canned pop continues its fast growth, both Coke and Pepsi may have to change their minds...
...five in the morning know how archaic the machines are. If anyone could stay critical at that hour, there would probably be an outcry from a public used to watching their high powered servants perform at supersonic speeds. But the new speed fad hardly bothers the sweepers. They still prefer picking up the newspaper shreds of a high-charged world at the laconic pace of six miles an hour...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass) also said he would "prefer to leave voting questions up to the states." Saltonstall indicated to the CRIMSON that he was still undecided on how he will vote on the issue. "Very frankly, I want to hear the debate." He added, "Odds are that the amendment will go through the Senate...