Word: preferably
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...miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese have not agreed even on how to proceed with the withdrawal negotiations. The Israelis want to talk directly with the Lebanese about all aspects of future relations between the two countries. The Lebanese, determined to strengthen their Arab ties, prefer to use the U.S. as a middleman and, for the time being, to limit any talks to military questions...
...televised speech Monday night, the President admitted that the U.S. "would prefer that the Soviets dismantle SS-18's [their intercontinental ballistic missiles] rather than we build more holes." Since Moscow is unlikely to scrap its SS-18's. Reagan would have done much better to aim at finding a mutual compromise. The SS-18 question is on the START negotiations agenda; Reagan could have emphasized that and put off the MX a while longer, at least long enough to see what else Andropov and Co. might do to better relations...
Surrey said he would prefer to see all tax loopholes removed but accepts the political need to keep exemptions such as the deduction for charitable contributions in the proposed legislation...
Although she discourages comparisons of the basketball and soccer teams. Judge allows, "I guess I prefer soccer because the learn is a lop-level team. It's nice to be playing on a team that's ranked in the top nationally...
Perhaps the lesson of these figures is that viewers prefer straight information and quiet talk to electronic bells and whistles. Certainly the perfervid claims of drama and import, when events were inconclusive, turned some viewers off. Television is incomparably compelling in covering real action, yet embarrassingly unconvincing when it tries to manufacture excitement. But there were some statistics that defied optimistic interpretations: the three networks together attracted less than a third of U.S. households on average; even among those who were home watching TV, nearly half turned to entertainment instead. Despite all their hubbub and hype, all their reaching...