Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...campaigns would reach them along with everyone else. Some progressive-minded companies demonstrated their good intentions toward the black market by integrating a few black models into their ads. But that old one-size-fits-all approach won't wash today. Instead there is a growing recognition that cultural preferences and values influence what black consumers buy. A De Paul University study found, for example, that African Americans prefer products that acknowledge their ethnic heritage and respond best to ads that reflect the full panorama of the black community...
...during the first four months of 1992, compared with the same period in 1991. So far this year, 1,000 Palestinians on the wanted list have been arrested and 39 killed. Militants are also said to be surrendering in unprecedented numbers -- 130 since Jan. 1 -- presumably because they prefer jail to possible death at the hands of the commandos. The military says the 130 are hard-core fighters, a claim many Palestinians dispute. Saleh Abdul Jawad Saleh, a West Bank political scientist who has studied Palestinian fugitives, says most of those who have given themselves up were wanted for lesser...
...president, Dr. John Kitzhaber, father of the proposal. But almost nobody in Oregon -- or Washington -- thinks the fuss about the handicapped is anything but a smoke screen. Oregon's real mistake is that it tried to make tough choices about health care in an election year when timid politicians prefer to avoid the issue like the plague...