Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, some passengers prefer pure luxury. Retired California businessman Roy Black and his wife have spent $30,000 for the penthouse of Crystal Cruises' 940-passenger ship Harmony during a 30-day world tour. The Blacks are so fond of Crystal, a privately owned company, that they've taken 18 Harmony cruises. "It's the ultimate in comfort and spaciousness and decor," Black says of the 950-sq.-ft. penthouse, which comes with a Jacuzzi and private butler service, among other creature comforts. "It's always been our home away from home...
...prefer studying at Burger King because I really need to eat while I study," Chandra said...
...profit. Russia does insert an environmental argument: the oil industry could threaten the Caspian sturgeon and its oily treasure, caviar. For its part, Iran says it will cooperate in Caspian development only if it gets, say, a 20% share of the sea's resources. Both Russia and Iran prefer that pipelines carrying Caspian oil be built or expanded over their territory...
...cited? To take it a step further, can a paper use e-mails where the author denies permission? These issues will become more important as use of electronic sources becomes increasingly widespread. As Managing Editor Andrew S. Chang '99 points out, "Some people, like Dean Harry Lewis, now prefer to communicate with us only by e-mail...
...themselves. Two weeks ago the Clinton Administration began drawing up plans for Pol Pot's capture and trial in an international court. Many who had trafficked with him--the Chinese, the Thais, the former Khmer Rouge cadres now running the government in Phnom Penh--had good reason to prefer his death to a revealing trial. But the 73-year-old's health had been failing. A stroke in 1995 paralyzed much of his left side, he was taking medicine for a heart complaint, and he suffered from chronic malaria. For the past three weeks he had been hustled between safe...