Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trust me, it's there. Just ask my roommates, or my high school history teacher, or anyone I've ever had a serious argument with. I just prefer to be subtle about...
Some students said they would like to avoid BAT. "We would prefer HSA," said Trey Grayson '94, chair of the Kirkland House Committee...
When these goals come into conflict, Berry,McNitt, Kay and others must make tough choices.For example, should some dining halls continue tooffer self-service? While students prefer it, itraises the price of each meal by 16 percent,officials said, and may encourage students towaste more food...
Most teachers now prefer the bilingual method. Says Winnie Porter, a bilingual teacher at the Cesar Chavez Elementary School in San Francisco: "It's very simple. You teach children in the language they think in; then they understand the concepts. Once they understand the concepts, they can transfer these skills to a second language. I know it works. I've been doing it for 10 years and see the results." But many communities cannot afford or attract qualified bilingual teachers in all -- or any -- of the subjects students may need. Says Gloria McDonell, director of the Fairfax County E.S.L. program...
...critics of cloning say we should know what we're getting into, with all its Orwellian implications. But if we decide to outlaw cloning, we should understand the implications of that. We would be saying in effect that we prefer to leave genetic destiny to the crap shooting of nature, despite sickle-cell anemia and Tay-Sachs and all the rest, because ultimately we don't trust the market to regulate life itself. And this may be the hardest thing of all to acknowledge: that it isn't so much 21st century technology we fear, as what will happen...