Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gloves every year on New York's infamous skid row, which runs from Chinatown a dozen or so blocks north to Cooper Square. "Oh, if I just wanted to stand here and give them away, I could get rid of 1,000 in an hour. Easy. But I prefer to go looking for the people I want. The ones who avoid eye contact. It is not so much the gloves, but telling people they count...
...always be adhered to. Says Ann Coulston, a senior research dietitian at Stanford University Medical Center: "The institution offering the program is eager to get as many people as possible for revenue-generating purposes. People may get admitted who don't meet the criteria." Some experts would prefer to see the diets used only for very obese patients, those who are at least 50% overweight...
...different theme or message. Others, like Our Town, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a robustly funny Broadway revival that opened last week, say much the same things in every production, yet manage to do so with a seemingly inexhaustible freshness. Actors and directors, predictably, tend to prefer the protean kind of play, because it gives them greater opportunity to display creativity and intelligence. But audiences can be just as happy with the second kind, rediscovering time and again the undiminished pleasures of work that speaks the plain truth...
...from 15 to 120 members, most of them former guidance counselors or admissions officers. Many work solo, but some have joined large firms: Edu-Care International, with offices in New York City, Miami and London, employs more than 60 people and advises 150 students a year. Private coaches generally prefer meeting clients when they are juniors or seniors in high school. But Jane McLagen of Hinsdale, Ill., likes to sign up eighth- graders because it gives her more time to shape their record. In past summers she has sent one student to Greece to build roads, another to Hawaii...
...November, Stanford's Committee on Academic Appraisal and Achievement presented a report to the Faculty Senate citing a faculty survey taken last year in which two-thirds of the respondents said they would prefer a "historical record" grading system, said Professor David Wellbery, former chairman of the committee. The historical system includes a failing grade...