Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sake of the [Crystal City] community, obviously we would prefer that the Navy stay," he said. "This is a tough blow for that community and it's unfortunate
...Some prefer their catastrophes more mundane. For them we have economic apocalypse. It is hard to think of a time when the best-seller list did not feature a Crash of Nineteen-something book. A few years ago, it was The Crash of '79. Then The Panic of '89. (Same author!) Today it is Bankruptcy 1995. The idea is the same. Only the date gets pushed back...
...California. On opening day, April 5, Sherry Davis will become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball announcer. The pay: $75 a game. Davis, a longtime baseball buff with training in TV-commercial voice-overs, has a smooth delivery the front office hopes fans will prefer to the gab prevalent around the league...
...situations to plumb the depths of chimp insight. For instance, one experiment has the apes observe two handlers deliver cups of juice. One accidentally spills juice on the floor; the other overturns the cup deliberately. When asked to choose a handler to deliver their next cup of juice, chimps prefer the clumsy person, suggesting that they are aware they are better off with a klutz than with a helper with evil intent. Again, in analogous experiments capuchin monkeys appear to be less shrewd. The animals will, pitiably, continue to put their trust in a human helper who eats rather than...
...ample space that resident tutors occupy could be used to ease perennial overcrowding. Or, as the University might prefer, we could use the suites to house more students. In either case, the benefits to undergraduates -- either more space or lower tuition unquestionably out-weigh the loss of a few resident tutors. After all who wouldn't reject his or her tutor in exchange for a single bedroom of a few hundred dollars off tuition...