Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk aesthetics," he prodded. "Beauty counts for nothing in that study. But I, for one, would prefer a stroll along the Charles with a paramour to a furtive dash through New Haven alleyways or an asthmatic traipse through Jersey smog...
...find that settlements provide only a temporary and occasional solution to these problems. As time passes and judicial conservatism becomes ingrained in our legal system, acceptable settlements may become harder and harder to negotiate. If a company guilty of discriminatory hiring practices is threatened with a lawsuit, it might prefer to go to trial if the courts consistently rule against affirmative action...
...problem lies in the alternative--leaving a Vietnamese government in Phnom Penh. Unwilling to let Vietnam extend its sphere of influence, both China and the United States would prefer the opposition coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge. But the Cambodian people would...
...insist if SPIL is to continue to exist--and we would prefer that it dissolve and go away--that students sit on the side of the owners at the same time," Natale said. "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more, and we're absolutely dead serious about that...
...Others prefer to see the debate as primarily an economic and class one, rather than a racial issue...