Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with The Crimson last month, Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman '67, the administrator directly responsible for the house system, identified a drop in leave-taking as the cause for swelling numbers in the dorms. The Gulf War, it seems, caused Harvard's travellers to prefer the Charles to the Thames...
Gorbachev would obviously prefer presiding over the largest country on earth to becoming the custodian of little more than a drafty fortress on the banks of the Moscow River. His friend Bush would rather have one phone number in his Rolodex than a dozen...
...usual scientific view is that because it's much easier to listen than to travel, we should look radio... but we should also look at the flip side. If you were trying to find out about an alien society, would you prefer to ask them the truth, or would you spy on them? Of course, you'd spy on them...
...Whatever conversations we've had were brief and personal, and I prefer to keep them that way," Andrew Cuomo told the Post...
...concluded it isn't important -- or possible -- to find a child who looks just like themselves, but most experts acknowledge that the rush of bidders in Romania last year was largely explained by the fact that the children were Caucasian. Some aspiring parents, seeking to adopt in Latin America, prefer to go to Chile rather than, say, Peru or Colombia, because they consider Chilean children more likely to be light skinned and Caucasian-looking...