Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prefer to see a compromise which has more choice in it, but I am not optimistic about hearing a new one," Asay said...
...second point. professor Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University in Israel is not, she asserts, an expert in the field of Israel's military connections with South Africa because he is a psychologist--no matter that he has been doing research into this area for twelve years. Would she prefer the expertise of the CIA? If so, let me refer her to the "NBC Nightly News" for October 25 through 27--which, incidentally, deemed Professor Beit-Hallahmi sufficiently expert to invite his comments...
Other groups are also critical of PR RepublicanCity Committee chair Vincent L. Dixon says hewould prefer a council organized along the Bostonmodel, with some members representing districtsand some elected at large...
Though the U.S. and the Soviet Union might prefer to ignore the issue, Europeans are more visibly concerned. "The whole question," warns Bromke, "could conceivably slip out of everyone's hands but the Germans'." Czechoslovakia's Doudera puts the problem in even starker terms. "All of Germany's neighbors have got to be against reunification," he says. "Once East and West Germany have been unified, what is to stop the Germans from wanting to get back all their old lands in the east, from Pomerania to Silesia and Sudetenland...
THIS summer, one prominent Harvard liberal extolled to me, over a few beers, the virtues of living in New York City. I told her that I prefer my little home-town in West Virginia, where you can leave your keys in your car, and where no one would think of walking past a starving man on the sidewalk. "Yes," she said, looking at me impatiently, "but what can you do on weekends...