Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these complaints are exaggerated. Says Sadove: "There's no way you can produce an ideal environment for a 30-ft. killer whale, but you can provide an adequate one." And, observes Louis Garibaldi, director of the Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation in New York City, marine mammals don't necessarily prefer open spaces. "Our belugas often choose the smallest tank available," he says...
...Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer), while black gangs still favor rock cocaine. Some of the city's Iranians go in for smoking heroin, known as "chasing the tiger," while Arabs settled in Detroit prefer khat, which gives an amphetamine-like high and is also the drug of choice in Somalia...
...entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also won cases arguing that dependents of women in the military should have the same housing arrangements as men and that it was unconstitutional to prefer the father over the mother as executor of a son's estate...
Borrowers who prefer not to finance their home purchase in the traditional manner may choose to mortgage their home through a credit union...
...seems like a reasonably minimum set of standards. It non-union contractors can do these and can still outbid unions, then they're not the devil. I would prefer to see everything union, but I would like to see standards," says Ehrlich...