Word: preferably
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Birk is just one of the current crop of top corporate executives who prefer to think on their feet. George Shinn, chairman and chief executive officer of First Boston Corp., a leading investment-banking house, has been a devoted stander for twelve years. Shinn, a Merrill Lynch alumnus who also had backaches, believes that tall desks are simply an outgrowth of evolution. Says he: "We crawled and walked on all fours before standing, so the upright posture is the most natural." Both Shinn and Birk are following in the tradition of Edward Allen Pierce, a Merrill Lynch founder who worked...
Nevertheless, there are more than a few who prefer to substitute hypocrisy for democracy and continue to deny D.C. citizens voting rights. Although the amendment has garnered bi-partisan support, it is an easy target for many who consider the District to be to urban, too liberal, too Black and too Democratic. Attacks have come chiefly from what Klick describes as the radical conservative rightwing groups such as The American Conservative Union, the Conservative Caucus, the Heritage and Liberty foundations." Genuine conservatives generally support the American principle of "one man, one vote," she adds...
Reagan has been seeking to make a major issue out of his call for a constitutional amendment that would compel a balanced budget, a dubious piece of legislation at best. In his TV speech last week, the President assailed "the hard-core opposition of a minority of Representatives who prefer continued big spending" and who prevented the amendment from winning the required two-thirds vote when it came before the House earlier this month...
When he headed the NSA, Inman instituted a set of voluntary restrictions on the publication of cryptology methods, including codemaking and breaking. Inman has said that scientists should prefer voluntary guidelines to one Congress might mandate...
...have to be given a much stronger voice in Iran's affairs than the Shah was willing to consider. I could not disagree, but my basic choice was whether to give the Shah our complete backing in his crisis or to predicate support, as Sullivan increasingly seemed to prefer, on the Shah's acquiescence to suggestions from the American embassy...