Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanford program cost companies $5000 less than Harvard's AMP, and it runs only once a year during the summer for only eight weeks. But Rinaldi says that some smaller corporations that can't afford to have their top workers away from the office for a long time prefer Stanford's shorter program...
...similar varieties like Nigeria's Bonny Light were selling for discounts of at least $2 on the spot market, where prices float according to market conditions. As a result, producers were having trouble signing up steady customers. Said a Japanese buyer in the Persian Gulf: "We prefer reliable, long-term contracts to buying on spot, but the price difference is too big for us to pass up." In July the Japanese bought 25% of their oil on the spot market, compared with...
...allow the spirits to mature, we have to make whisky so far ahead that now we are stuck with it." The surplus is not likely to be consumed soon. In the U.S., the biggest single Scotch market, the beverage is suffering from an old-fogy image. Many younger drinkers prefer lighter, whiter spirits like vodka and lighter still, white wine...
...forebears who gave their lusty solo king-of-the-hill yells while helping the people across town to fight a fire and demanding that the central government provide roads, protection, cheap land and transportation. Not that the country ever claimed not to be odd. Inscrutable West. Why does America prefer to wear a fiction when the facts show the nation in a better light? Who was that masked...
Some of those cliques exist to exclude. I sometimes think they have no other purpose. It is very difficult not to resent that. I would prefer for such cliques not to exist. I think particularly that one could argue that in a university they impede education and interaction so much that they have no place here. Nevertheless, one has to recognize the paradox of friendship. Exclusive groups often create friendships, very deep character builders for the individuals who belong to them. These are valuable for those individuals. I can think of nothing to say against that...Without friendship, what...