Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silent on how to pay for what it recommends. Where it is specific, the plan proposes new or additional "user fees" and surcharges for air travelers and new authority for states to turn federally financed highways into toll roads. Translation: Bush wants to improve Americans' mobility, but he would prefer that local politicians raise the funds needed to break the transportation gridlock...
Columbia, Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Vermont (UVM) are among many colleges that offer this system to their students. Officials at these colleges find that most students prefer the point system to the traditional board plan...
...Sovereignty is a fiction in the U.S.S.R. As before, the Moscow center holds its monopoly, especially over the economy. It refuses those economic forms of life Estonians prefer: private property and farming on a cooperative basis, the development of light industry and food production, with a minimum of heavy industry...
...Soviet Union for 50 years. This would establish a firm legal basis for the independence decree and also allow Lithuanians to claim the republic's property, including 95 factories that still obey orders from ministries in Moscow. Before taking such a step, however, some Sajudis leaders would prefer to hold a referendum, in which they estimate about 75% would favor independence...
...Americans have learned anything about George Bush in his l4 months as President, it is that he is more complex and calculating than expected. He is open and accessible but also secretive and, at times, deceptive. He is a voracious reader of opinion polls, yet would prefer that his face not appear on the nightly news. He seems to be a warm and genuine father but is ill at ease in any bout with self-analysis...