Word: rather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone who grew up in a house with a sign that said "Thank you for not smoking. We'd rather die of natural causes" on the front door, I am probably not the best person to advocate quitting to smokers; I don't know their experience...
...issue is not over the rights of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, but rather one affecting the rights of individual faculty-members. Still, Council members said the issue affects the interests of the university community and they hope to further address it at a later date...
What type of monopoly is Microsoft? A look at the prices is rather edifying, so it's a pity His Majesty didn't look a little longer. When Windows 3.0 first came out in April 1990, a copy went for $205. The initial price of Windows 98, on the other hand, was only $169. Lowering cost to the consumer, it seems, just doesn't correlate with market virtue anymore. Although, in all fairness to Jackson, we are talking about only an 18 percent reduction...
...this year certain cracks are showing in the ceremonial institution of the monarchy. Last week a law was passed that rid Parliament of those lords whose titles of nobility have been inherited rather than conferred as recognition for public achievement...
...much as I still love the British I don't particularly care for the monarchy and never have. To me the symbol of Britishness was never the bejeweled Queen, but rather that single, smiling, unarmed police officer (a "bobby") standing guard before the door of the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. That was what the British stood for in my mind. Not extravagant pageantry, but a sense of tradition tempered by a cheerful reasonableness...