Word: preferable
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...Letter from the Publisher, you state that President Daniel Ortega Saavedra declined to hold the Nicaraguan flag for your story on the U.N.'s "Global Family Album" [NATION, Nov. 4]. He refused, you say, because "his Sandinistas prefer their own red-and-black banner." Nothing could be further from the truth. President Ortega felt awkward holding a small flag in his hands and preferred to have it in his pocket. Visit our embassy and see how the blue-and-white national flag is prominently displayed. Carlos Tunnermann, Ambassador Embassy of Nicaragua Washington Blacks Criticizing Blacks...
...years average at the turn of the century. High rents are also forcing young adults to remain at home. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 62% of men and 47% of women still live with their parents--a mixed blessing that neither parents nor restive children may prefer. "Home is where the cheap eats are," notes Census Bureau Demographer Steve Rawlings. "The nest isn't emptying as it once...
...that busy Japanese working women had a hunger for easily prepared frozen foods. The company also showed a willingness to change its ingredients in order to please its new customers. The frozen fries in Tokyo are made with less salt than those sold in the U.S. Reason: the Japanese prefer to sprinkle the seasoning themselves. After only one year of business, Ore-Ida now claims 11% of the $40 million market...
...university itself, the Roman Catholic administration, would prefer not to be defined by a leather bag full of wind. Allowing Faust to complete his term spoke to this perspective as eloquently as the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh when Notre Dame's president said, "The players are first and foremost students. A coach's position should not be at the mercy of last week's score or the vagaries of a single season." All the same, the essence of the place is signaled by the outstretched arms on a campus mural known to the students as "Touchdown Jesus." The statue...
...knows that much more than a shower of dollars is required to combat famine. "We could spend our money tomorrow, and it could keep 30 million people alive for seven weeks," he says, "and then they'd die. Or, we can build wells and give them a life. I prefer to do that...