Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both students and professors would prefer not to have lotteries, and increasing course offerings is clearly the best answer to this problem in the long run. But if professors need to limit enrollment, they should only be allowed to do so by lottery. Juniors as a class were dismissed from Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," this year after having been dismissed from Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," as sophomores last year. The only fair way to reduce enrollment is to establish a standard procedure, so that students are aware of what faces them when they walk into...
...people have an adverse reaction to Jeff's bizarre service for a number of other reasons too. They prefer to bury or cremate their pets, he thinks, because they don't want to be reminded that their own deaths are looming closer. Jeff's natural customers seem to be yuppie types who not only prefer to deny death, but would also like to deny all that is unpleasant in life. Most of those people have heard about Jeff's service through stories done on him in newspapers from as far away as Britain, and on television and radio shows...
...Bundy was the kind of guy fathers like their daughters to date or the kind of guy that buttoned-down law firms prefer to hire. In college, Bundy was a B-plus student who reportedly loved children and poetry. Before he began his killing spree in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Bundy, then the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Commission, was a rising star in Seattle Republican Party politics...
This writer has analyzed the situation and will stick to his prediction even if he does prefer the Northeastern uniforms to the Crimson...
...come into a gun shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more at a time. Though gun dealers in some states are required to report...