Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice that the U.S. must make now and live with for decades. Instead, the chiefs want to ; keep all options open. When necessary, they want the U.S. to be the Lone Ranger who can go after a bandido like Manuel Noriega of Panama. But whenever possible, they would prefer to play the sheriff who leads a posse against the likes of Saddam Hussein...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I should prefer the world "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the later, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Some activist Lambs prefer to be called by code names by outsiders and often use a paramilitary lingo of "spiritual battle" and "satanic strongholds." One of them, a 34-year-old art school graduate known as "Maid Marian," says the organization is "like a family." But Ann Baker, head of a New Jersey- based pro-choice information and research group, contends that normal families do not practice what she calls "harassment and intimidation." Both advocates and enemies agree that the Lambs are dead serious about their cause. As long as abortion in the U.S. is legal, they will...
...remarkable -- and in its way quite daring -- temper of the rest of their movie, which is both antiheroic and antiepic, and thus a departure from the generally undistinguished tradition of the sports biopic. It may be a departure from the expectations of modern moviegoers too. For one thing, they prefer more . relevant subjects than old-time baseball heroes, however legendary. For another, they like their true stories to be slathered over with false sentiment -- the human spirit triumphant in unlikely but inspirational ways...
...Most people prefer Bill Clinton in the absence of other candidates," Bunker said. "I think there's no reservation that we all want George Bush to go, and that's the spirit in which this endorsement was made...