Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign forces from Lebanon, and we encourage the parties to continue their efforts to bring about a negotiated withdrawal." Privately, an Administration official remarked that "we understand (Israel's) impatience, but we don't think this is the way to go about it." The Reagan Administration would prefer to see Israel quickly negotiate a satisfactory diplomatic solution that would pose fewer risks for the Gemayel government...
...clashes between factions do erupt in Lebanon, the Israeli Cabinet, rather than local commanders, will decide what action, if any, Israeli forces should take in response. But Jerusalem would rather leave any such matter to the Lebanese. Said Major General Ori Orr, head of Israel's Northern Command: "I prefer to leave that problem to Amin Gemayel." The chances that the Lebanese Army could step in successfully under such chaotic circumstances are thought to be negligible. Partisan militiamen, for example, control the heights overlooking the road between Sidon and Beirut, and that link could be easily cut in the event...
...credit, James never wrote down to his periodical readers, even though he knew they included "that great majority of people who prefer to swallow their literature without tasting." Instead, he aggressively savored books in print, waging a constant campaign on behalf of his conviction that the novel is "the most magnificent form of art." James was not entirely alone in this belief. But unlike his contemporary critics and champions of fiction, he refused to lay down rules and precepts about what constitutes good novels: "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation...
...recent poll that asked the French where they would prefer to live in the year 2000, older respondents put the U.S. second, after Switzerland, and those under 22 listed the U.S. first. Indeed, where some French youths once looked romantically toward Peking or Havana, they now dream of the jobs and joys of California...
...England Japanese Center, which she runs out of her home in Stow, Mass. Along with the seminars, the center offers services ranging from translation and language instruction to private lessons in Japanese manners, which Atsumi gives in a den outfitted as a traditional Japanese sitting room. Clients who prefer to let someone else do the deal making can also turn to Atsumi for help. For a fee ranging from $100 an hour to a 10% commission, she will negotiate contracts with Japanese companies herself...