Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions in the gulf sheikdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates). Those states and Saudi Arabia have poured at least $20 billion into Iraqi coffers to help keep the advancing...
...great deal of misinformation has been spread in the Western press concerning religious differences in Iraq. It is true that religious and sectarian differences could create problems in some countries, but not in Iraq. I am not saying we do not have any problems at all. Any leader would prefer his people to think from one point of view, to be of one religion, one sect, in one city. The Iraqi people think from various angles but agree on one central point. We have Sunnis and Shi'ites here, that is a fact. But all of them are Iraqis...
...office of the future, some executive prefer the past...
...monks prefer not to focus on themselves as individuals. They see their real work as creating a community, "striving," as Brother Elias puts it, "to become one heart, one mind, one spirit." Brother Mark says, "Our choice is one another. Not wood chopping, music writing, pottery throwing, but to live the Gospel...
...high-techers have also been dubbed the Atari Democrats, but at least one of them would like to change that nickname. "We prefer Apple Democrats," jokes Representative Tim Wirth of Colorado, referring to the successful home-computer company. "It sounds more American...