Word: preferable
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...should be neater, of course," says Joy Imobighe, a hotel accountant in Port Harcourt, when asked her whether she supports the Bank's campaign. "The neatness to a certain extent determines the value." And as the unorthodox marketing campaign makes clear, Nigeria's authorities would prefer that the Naira be worth a whole lot more...
...involved in the process. “Our work can potentially be applied to rational and irrational human behavior,” Padoa-Schioppa said. The study was conducted by testing macaque monkeys’ responses to varying quantities of grape juice and apple juice. They were found to prefer the grape flavor over apple, and larger quantities over smaller ones. When the monkeys were making the choices, specific neurons in the OFC showed increasing levels of activity in correlation to values assigned to each commodity. Padoa-Schioppa said that there should be many follow up projects to this study...
...successful operation needs money, a meticulous plan and reliable people. The operatives working in China are critical. Peters and Kim Sang Hun prefer to depend on fellow Christian activists but will work with trustworthy brokers. There's no magic formula for knowing how many people or how much money is needed. Nor can the route be specified in advance, although right now there are two hot roads out of China--one through Mongolia, another through Laos...
...role in bringing about the transformations there. The failed Sautter plan would have cut costs by merging two huge tax administrations within the ministry. Both are still in place; Parent and his colleagues left the structures largely alone, but looked at ways to eliminate the overlap. "I prefer progressive reforms that succeed even if they take five years," Parent says, "to more ambitious and more rapid ones that run the risk of being a complete failure." That's typically French. In Germany and Scandinavia, change happens after considered debate and lengthy analysis. In France, by contrast, it tends...
...been thrust back into the Soviet gulag: Sentenced to eight years in a Siberian labor camp at Krasnokamensk, Khodorkovsky has been denied access to any intellectual activity. Access to books has been denied, and television is available only in the facility's recreation room, where other prisoners prefer watching soap operas. Khodorkovsky spends every day from 6 a.m. till 10 p.m. doing senseless manual labor and taking courses on glove-stitching. He is under constant monitoring by a team sent from Moscow of officials from the prisons department and the FSB (the security service that succeeded...