Word: prefering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stomach," Dercy says, "and I'll have 20 if necessary. Wherever I droop, I want it taken off. I wasn't born with anything sagging." Most of the American and European women who make vanity trips to Rio lack Senhora Gonçalves' sangfroid; they prefer to sneak away "for the carnival," returning miraculously refurbished to the astonished delight of their husbands and friends. The undisputed king of Rio's colony of cutaneous cutters is Ivo Pitanguy (pronounced pee-tahn-ghee), a theatrically handsome 44-year-old doctor who jets from his clinic...
...until white attitudes change, blacks must turn inward, control their own educational destiny, create the kind of power that commands respect and will enable them to meet whites on more equal ground. Black separatists are indeed taking that route (see box, page 14), although the vast majority of blacks prefer to join whites now in those better white schools. The separatist path also has its illusions. Money still matters in education, and it still seems to follow whitey. In the long run, polarization may prove more destructive to race relations than the current incidence of friction in integrated schools. Blacks...
...well as overdue. David Grove argues that the Reserve Board should aim for a money-supply increase averaging 3% to 4% at an annual rate over the next six months. Other members disagree only over whether the Reserve Board should reach that target gradually, as Heller and Pechman prefer, or immediately, to make up for having been too stringent too long, as Sprinkel and Okun urge...
...There's a better field in the mile," Colburn said last night. "It'd be nice to win a title, but you get tired of just winning, and I prefer a good ?? challenge...
Wilson also says he is wary of an urban studies concentration spreading itself too thin. Instead, he "would prefer people studying cities within the context of an existing disciplinerather than shopping in a cafeteria and putting things on a tray...