Word: preferably
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...loveliest Olympic sport, figure skating, actually preceded the first Winter Games by 16 years, debuting in the summer of 1908. Attention quickly centered on the women (skating people prefer you to say ladies), though dimpled Sonja Henie was just 15 in 1928 when she won the first of three gold medals that launched her multimillion-dollar movie career. In at least two respects, the blond Norwegian starlet of Sun Valley Serenade is still the ideal. East Germany's Katarina Witt, reigning world and Olympic champion, is ( studying to be an actress. And U.S. Challenger Debi Thomas, Witt's primary competition...
When the returns from the Iowa caucus roll in tonight, Gary Warren Hart--or Hartpence, if you prefer, the 51-year-old ex-Colorado senator--will have beaten Donald Duck handily. But he'll be lagging behind most of the rest of the Seven Dwarfs in the country's first test of political strength...
Wright disdains the idea of leaving determinations critical to American foreign policy to "someone in the State Department" -- say, the Secretary of State. The Speaker, who has of late been playing the plenipotentiary, perhaps fancies himself better suited to the role. But it is truly odd to prefer leaving such determinations to foreigners. Most countries devote enormous resources to maintaining independence of judgment in foreign policy. Only in America does the majority leader offer a foreign policy for export...
ALTHOUGH campaigns would prefer to sit on the upper part of the polling spectrum, the campaign of former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt has found some strategic advantages at the bottom. Mike Muir, Babbitt's campaign manager for New Hampshire, claims his candidate has gained "tremendous recognition" speaking his mind on controversial issues since he does not have to worry about his place in the polls (mainly, because he barely has one), while other candidates are restricted by the fear of jeopardizing their rank. "The governor's stand on the deficit has received more play simply because of the contrast offered...
...trying to lay something on them. I prefer the backdoor approach. the paintings are meant to say, 'Welcome, Welcome.' Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that." --Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist, explaining his artwork bolted on the back of parking sings throughout Cambridge. (10/21/87...