Word: preferably
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...uranium-enrichment program (especially because Beijing and Seoul are not convinced by U.S. intelligence that North Korea even has such a project). After all, China and South Korea may not like North Korea's nuclear arsenal but they seem to be getting used to living with it?and prefer it to instability or war on the peninsula. Since America's military options are exceedingly limited?by the lack of any good targets to strike in North Korea, by overcommitment of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Seoul's unwillingness to participate in any war?North Korea probably does...
...Under federal law grand jurors and prosecutors are sworn to secrecy but those who testify, like me, are under no such obligation, which is why I'm able to tell you what happened in the grand jury room. Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel, told me that he would prefer that I not discuss the matter, and I suspect he said the same thing to White House officials who are now treating his request as a command and refusing to comment on the case. I don't know if I can illuminate this confounding investigation, but I can at least explain...
...from the President. If further spending reductions are to be made, more people (43%) want military spending reduced than want social spending cut (31%). Opinion on that issue is sharply divided along partisan lines. Democrats and independents want military spending cut before social spending by 2 to 1; Republicans prefer social cuts by 43% to 26%. Fifty-three percent of those polled believe that further military cuts can be made without jeopardizing national security; here Reagan seems to be out of step with the public. (Somewhat paradoxically, the public also favors, by 45% to 34%, building the expensive and controversial...
...prefer to avoid these situations by dealing with reality abstractly when we can, and putting our humanity on hold when avoiding reality is impossible. And so it is that a businessman who walked by that morning and did not notice the woman sprawled by his foot could, an hour later in his office, his humanity re-engaged, become saddened by a newspaper report of a crime half a continent away...
...Senator, I've offered my resignation to the President twice, and he has decided that he would prefer that he not accept it, and that's his call." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, responding to Senator Edward Kennedy's call for his resignation...