Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some sort of currency crack-up had seemed likely for months -- especially to the speculators. Germany's high interest rates, designed to hold down inflation while attracting investors to pay for rebuilding the former East Germany, angered Bonn's European partners, most of whom are fighting recession and prefer low rates to foster growth...
...poverty and desolation she sees in Mexico, she cries, "Heaven should be for those who go through hell on Earth." In her own life she enumerates that which is worth living for: "Love, sex, cigarettes--and tequila." She speaks of her own obstacles with humor and wit. "I Prefer to suffer the Catholic way--publicly...
...CORPORATIONS GENERALLY PREFER THAT EMployees leave their personal lives at home. But with 57% of women with children under six working outside the home, and 10% of all workers also serving as the primary caretakers for aging parents, business executives are finding that workers without proper day-care arrangements are workers whose minds aren't on the job. To help regain their attention, 137 major companies and organizations -- from AT&T to Mobil to the YMCA -- announced an unprecedented program to fund dependent care for employees' children and elderly relatives...
According to interviews with half a dozen house masters, a majority of the committee members prefer either non-ordered choice or randomization, and many randomization supporters view the compromise system favorably...
Better books or not, many students prefer the cheaper used books...