Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservative social architects would challenge (no doubt discreetly) the wisdom of making special dispensations for beggars in favor of passively causing their extinction. Other objections could come from merchants, who would prefer the simplicity of credit transactions to the tedium of processing coupons. Some merchants might protest against honoring the coupons at all; that fancy French restaurant probably doesn't want to serve the poor bum who saved up hundreds of food coupons for one glorious meal. In addition, the federal government would have to print up unforgeable coupons (though in much smaller numbers) just as it had previously printed...
...Widener's easy to use. It's one big box," says Lamont employee Jeffrey I. Zaref '96. "[I prefer] Widener because I can take out books for longer...
...attempt to foster fledgling businessesmay seem like an improbable show of selflessness,but officials prefer to call it "enlightened selfinterest...
...staggering under the twin blows of layoffs and an inflation rate that could top 30% in 1995. Nissan and Volkswagen both plan more than 1,000 job cuts this month, while entertainment giant Televisa has dismissed 1,500 employees, or 6% of its work force, since December. ``Most people prefer to buy food rather than cigarettes,'' says Consuelo Docal de Rojas, who owns a struggling candy and tobacco shop in Mexico City and rents out apartments above the store. ``People can't scrape up cash to cover even necessities.'' At the same time, she adds, ``all my tenants are behind...
Guards have noticed one important sexual trend--couples prefer first-floor rooms to higher altitude sites of lovemaking. "It's almost entirely first floor [classrooms and labs]," says a guard. "I don't know why not second and third floor rooms. Maybe when you're that hot and bothered, you can't wait to climb the stairs...