Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married Roman Catholic layman, I have always felt that I should much prefer to receive marital guidance from a married priest. I firmly believe that clerical celibacy should be a matter of choice, not a requirement for ordination. Matrimony is considered a sacrament by Roman Catholics. Why deprive our priests of its many graces...
Pointing out that there are "as many different personal styles as there are Masters," Monro said that some Masters prefer to concentrate on working with students already in the House, rather than on choosing among an already carefully selected group of freshmen. Unlike the old system, which was particularly suited to those Masters who chose to devote great amounts of time to selections, the new procedure allows each Master to determine the extent of his participation...
Dean Monro said Wednesday that he would prefer a draft deferment procedure along the lines of a lottery to the current system based on class rank and national tests. Under the lottery system, he said, there would be no deferment for students...
...march in his divided country. But Souvanna, who hugs the fiction of neutralism as closely as the Communist rebels allow him, wanted no talk of military countermeasures. "The people must go on improving their way of life despite the war," he told Humphrey. "That is why we would prefer to see tractors arrive rather than weapons." Agreeing, Humphrey expounded eloquently on the TVA-style Mekong Valley development, one of Washington's pet pilot projects for an Asia at peace. "If we only had more time," sighed Humphrey at one point, "boy, I could have a ball." But the White...
...least of the air-fare confusion has been caused by the fact that the airlines, rapidly phasing out piston-driven planes in favor of jets, understandably prefer to charge more for the jet rides. And for a long while the Civil Aeronautics Board permitted them to do just that: there was a well-established average surcharge of 10% for jet travel. But just as understandably, CAB Chairman Charles S. Murphy last summer decided that the airlines were making so much money that, in the public interest, rates ought to go down. The CAB thereupon decreed that there should...