Word: preferable
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...these beams seemed to go on forever,” she said. “They disappeared into the night.” Kenneth said that it had been helpful to be with other families of victims at the Sept. 11 ceremony, but some families with lost loved ones prefer more private settings. Rekha D. Packer ’76 lost her husband, Michael B. Packer ’76, on Sept, 11 when he was delivering a keynote speech to an e-commerce conference on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower...
When Yale adopted a nonbinding early admission policy in 2002, the school’s president, Richard C. Levin, said “I personally would prefer to eliminate all the early admissions programs, but realistically we cannot do that...
...fact that Hillary polarizes the country so much says more about the electorate than it does about her abilities and agenda. Sadly, Americans still prefer women with curves rather than nerves. We rush to mock (as your cover blatantly did) any woman with bold opinions and vision. But the joke is on us because we lose every time we permit ourselves to shrink the pool of qualified candidates, female or male, to a collection of shallow and weak-minded individuals who are more likely to muddle in mediocrity than dare to dream...
...embrace of wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen's and Warren's) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom color you would prefer he paint your pews. "The tragedy is that Christianity has become a yes-man for the culture," says Boston University's Prothero...
...These days, Americans prefer to talk about "color blindness." I hate the term. For one, it's an impossibility. Color is immutable and unavoidable; it's the first thing you notice about someone, whether you register it consciously or not. For another, it's offensive. "It blurs the real problems of jobs and education that communities of color are struggling with," Hartmann says. And just as your race affects how you experience the world, it also determines the perspective that you bring to any group dynamic - and we should value those different perspectives...