Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object to his coming, but I'd prefer they look at current people rather than dig into the past," she added...
Hamlin said he and the staff have not taken a position regarding Brustein's appointment. "We prefer to wait for more information," he added...
...line links the White House to the Kremlin for nearly instantaneous communication. But the two superpowers often prefer to conduct their strategic discourse by less direct means. Such an exchange seems to have been under way last week, when both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. took a number of actions or made statements bearing on the balance of nuclear power. Exactly what, if anything, they were saying to each other was unclear...
...They are much more likely to fool an interviewer on the telephone than during a personal session." Pre-election polls usually rely on one in-depth, in-person survey conducted a few months before the campaign. Follow-up polls are usually done by telephone. Most candidates prefer to save the $50,000 that a person-to-person follow-up would cost. This year that was a critical mistake in many states...
...press. To the West, the press is the independent Fourth Estate, watchdog of the other three, and profit-making servant of an informed electorate. To the Communist world, the press is an apparatus of the state charged primarily with educating the masses about state policies. Third World leaders may prefer the Western model, but believe they need a controlled press to promote economic development, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Observes Chicago Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick: "I hear the same complaints from the Third World as I do from Highland Park, Ill., where people think we should cover...