Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Beirut came at a most inopportune moment. Habib appeared to have worked out a complex agreement that would have provided for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Lebanon. That the Israelis seemed willing to jeopardize the Habib mission indicated to some dispirited American analysts that Jerusalem might actually prefer a bloody showdown to a diplomatic settlement that would preserve and possibly enhance the P.L.O.'s political status. Asked one U.S. official: "How can Begin bear to see [P.L.O. Leader Yasser] Arafat two months from now in Cairo, his apparatus intact, Mubarak as his ally, Saudi money behind...
...seems to have got the better of the beach battle. The Soviet beach in question is a fly-ridden, muddy stretch usually avoided by Americans. The Yanks prefer the posher facilities on the Kliasma River near their weekend retreat at Tarasovka, 15 miles north of the capital. Not only that, but Moscow's retaliation failed to include the local tennis courts, where U.S. diplomats are still happily batting away; there is no golf course in Moscow from which U.S. diplomats can be banned...
Most experts answer no. The major U.S. brews all look and taste pretty much alike because, by and large, that is the way most American drinkers prefer them...
...Jewish Publication Society Bible translation [July 5] is neither Orthodox nor genuine. It is a freewheeling, liberal translation, which substitutes Americanese and sociological jargon for the authenticity of the rabbinic tradition-"norms" instead of "statutes." American Orthodox Jews prefer two recent Bible translations...
...ites who predominate in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain and who have unstable minorities in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait, generate fears far out of proportion to their numbers. . . . The Shi'ites believe that the leadership of Islam should have remained in the Prophet's family. The Sunnis prefer to make such decisions by consensus. The Shi'ites supported Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law All, who became the fourth Caliph, or successor, before his assassination in 661. According to the Shi'ites, Ali and his descendants were Imams, divinely guided leaders and mediators between...