Word: preferments
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...prefer that people make their own decisions," Forsgard said...
Lacks the glitz and glamour of Java-enhanced pages, which some people prefer. volonnin.student.harvard.edu...
...counts down to a deadline for all-party agreement on Northern Ireland, says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Unionist leader David Trimble today dismissed as unacceptable compromise proposals by U.S. mediator Senator George Mitchell. ?The Unionists are hanging tough to try and secure more concessions,? says Hillenbrand. ?They prefer the status quo in Northern Ireland and want to minimize the changes that result from the peace process...
...order to "effect the modest alteration of adding a signature to women's diplomas." In contrast, on the day of his diploma veto, Dean Lewis promised to advocate for the reinstatement of Latin on baccalaureate diplomas, providing women with an example of an issue on which he apparently would prefer to spend his energy...
...self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless such women tame themselves, Wurtzel bemoans, they wind up dying young. Or, one supposes, at the very least unmarriageable to nice fund managers...