Word: rather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editors would rather plunge passionately into a policy whose effects have barely been examined. The editors, most of them secure in the houses of their choice, are calling for full randomization of first-year students...
...cartoons recently, I noticed how little things have changed. I added my voice to those that asked Spence to allow students a role in tenure reform long ago, in 1986, but we students are still left on the sidelines to watch the Harvard faculty deteriorate. Harvard would rather have us keep busy reforming our clubs and extra-curricular organizations. And have us give generously when we reminisce...
Deputy Energy Secretary Henson Moore claims that the revised schedule is necessary to satisfy scientific and environmental concerns. "This is in fact a realistic reappraisal rather than a delay," he says. But to critics, it is yet another sign of bureaucratic bungling. Two years and $500 million into the Yucca project, the federal agency appears to have accomplished little. John Tuck, Under Secretary of Energy, conceded last week that the department did not have a "scientifically sound plan" for assessing the site's suitability as a dump...
...forced to depend on military men like Ramos and De Villa to make sure that the armed forces did not entirely turn on her. Unfortunately, the management policies of these top officers were forged during the dictatorship, when promotions were decided almost wholly on the basis of political loyalty rather than talent. The top ranks continued to be filled by officers who owed fealty to the Ramos-De Villa clique -- and only by extension to Aquino...
...subject to forced repatriation, the plan will seek to set up a monitoring system to ensure that they are not punished by the Vietnamese government. But that was small comfort for one group of boat people in Hong Kong, who hung from their windows a banner reading, WE WOULD RATHER DIE HERE THAN GO BACK TO VIET...