Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...choice of vacations I'd go to the U.S., but it's so expensive I don't even dream about it." Though the Ursus factory provides vacation centers for its workers along the Baltic Sea or in Poland's lake district, the Karasiewiczes prefer to spend their 3½ weeks of vacation tending a 3,200-sq.-ft. plot of land, ten minutes away from their apartment, which they received free as factory workers. Says Krzysztof: "We can plant vegetables and flowers, and there is a small hut on the land where we can rest...
...endorsed the Citizens Crime Watch in Dade County, whose members call police when spotting a crime and "armed with pencils and notebooks ... jot down details." You may prefer to have a notebook by your bed when some drugged-up nut kicks down your door, but I'll stick to my .357 magnum...
Then there are the no bowls. The only thing post-season college football lacks is its own Pro Bowl--short for probation or undergraduate professionals, whichever you prefer...
Goldman said that the Soviets would likely prefer to settle the Polish crisis before Jan. 20, when Reagan takes office...
Even so, the earth's behavior is becoming much less mysterious. As late as 1750, the Bishop of London told his flock that two recent quakes were warnings from an angry deity. Today, scientists prefer another explanation, an all-encompassing view of the earth known as the theory of plate tectonics. It holds that the planet's surface consists of a dozen or so restless plates, each about 70 miles thick. Their movements explain volcanoes, the rise of mountains and the drift of continents. They account for quakes as well, most of which seem to occur where...