Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's anything Len excels at, it's defying expectations. They've got a female vocalist in a male-dominated genre, they've got white guys who rap, they put on a melodic show with turntables, not guitars, they've got a sugary pop single but prefer hip-hop beats and to top it all off, they're Canadian and they don't let you forget...
...think in general donors prefer to give to something that they can see or feel or enjoy," Knowles said. Libraries, he said, do not give people that pleasure...
...also speak English without an accent. Instead of an unruly Afro or dread locks, I wear my hair in a lowcropped fade. And I prefer chocolate and milk to gin and juice. Like DiMaggio for Italians, I am one of the "good blacks...
While this apparent ignorance could potentially be a problem, Snowberg's candidacy does add a much-needed voice to students' issues. Furthermore, although many Harvard students prefer to vote absentee in their hometown municipal elections, others may be motivated by the possibility of a peer's campaign to join the ranks of Cambridge citizens...
...bypasses many business functions and can lead to their demise. Travel agencies could be in very, very difficult shape, for instance. Says Newman: "I think you will eventually see some change in the distribution of automobiles, because people detest the process" of getting all their information from dealers; they prefer to gather data on the Net. Varian believes that shopping malls will continue to draw people, but many consumers will come only to visit movie theaters, restaurants, cafes and other entertainment outlets. He thinks shopping at stores will be a smaller fraction of the economic transactions occurring at the mall...