Word: preferments
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Although Washington would prefer Israel to send all the exiles home, the U.S. can accept a phased return as long as Israel gives it some cover by creating a process to review the cases. "No one should expect a dramatic breakthrough in which 396 people go home tomorrow," says a U.S. official. Creating his own version of "Read my lips," Rabin told visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana, "Write this down. The ((deportation)) decision is irreversible...
Reed College students in Portland, Oregon traditionally prefer to celebrate the beginning of spring reading period with "Renn Fayre...
...newspaper does not serve its community by pandering to it. The most important news is usually controversial, usually involves people who would prefer that their stories remain unexposed. Yet a newspaper does not perform its duty by suppressing news. A newspaper best serves the community by leading, not by following polls or popular opinion...
...spite of the good news about the economy as a whole, most large corporations prefer almost any alternative to hiring new full-time employees. Not only do they have painful memories of the recent recession, but they now face runaway costs for health care and other benefits that often make it prohibitively expensive to expand their work force. The same companies are being squeezed even tighter by global competition, which has made cost cutting and downsizing -- on a permanent basis -- a way of life...
...past two years, expecting to win both times. Instead, they lost by a hair to the New York Giants, then were scalped by the Redskins. After the Bills thumped the Miami Dolphins 29-10 last week to earn their third straight trip to "the Show," as players prefer to call it, there was little euphoria. Instead, there was a sense of mission. "I don't think we want to celebrate yet," said nose tackle Jeff Wright...