Word: preferably
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Stanford? Certainly some college presidents prefer that tennis club by the Pacific. You know the place: You've seen one Coppertone commercial, you've seen Stanford. Some people get mugged traversing the Cambridge Common. But at least no one in the Yard dies a violent death from runaway frisbees or errant golf balls. Stanford students like to say Palo Alto is more laid back, but there's a medical term for that: coma. We have crew races on the Charles River. Stanfordites sail on a man-made cesspool christened "Lake Lagunita." For non-Romance language afficianados that translates as "Lake...
...officials acknowledge that West European public opinion might force the U.S. to accept such a merger, but they would prefer to avoid it on the grounds that the START talks are complicated enough...
...unacceptable." He used the word over and over, until Nitze bridled. There was plenty in the Soviet proposal that the U.S. too could brand unacceptable, Nitze responded coldly. "Fine. Why don't you tell us what's unacceptable to you?" Kvitsinsky asked. "Because," Nitze replied, "I prefer to talk about objective realities and inequalities. It's not profitable to exchange charges of unacceptability. Besides, I've never believed in the wisdom of burning bridges. And I feel somewhat uncomfortable in the presence of pyromaniacs...
...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Farouk al Sharaa, told TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro, with a touch of asperity, "If Arafat insists on remaining stubborn and uncompromising, then perhaps he will not find any more mediators after this." As for the P.L.O.'s future, added Sharaa: "We would prefer to see a collective leadership, but it is not our job to advise the Palestinians on this." Arafat may emerge with his chairmanship intact, but he may still be obliged to make changes in the structure of the P.L.O. leadership. Two hard-line P.L.O. factions, the Popular Front...
...collection. She takes Herman Melville's novella. "Bartleby the Scrivener", and dissects it as a verbal tour de force. Bartleby speaks only 37 times in a story of 16,000 words concerning himself, and each time he speaks he does so in a variation of the phrase "I would prefer not to." Hardwick convincingly equates Bartleby's character with the modern New Yorker; his footlessness is the predecessor...