Word: prefered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...polls tell us the President's approval rating seldom gets out of the 30s. Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular. Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans by a margin of about 15%. When a once-popular three-term Senator gets bounced in a primary battle with a political unknown, it's a very big deal. Those numbers all add up to a political upheaval this November. The folks in D.C. see the numbers. But they haven't gotten their heads around what they mean. Joe was out of touch. And Washington...
...think that's far-fetched. But the threat that black boxes will morph into a continuous system is less likely if you have a regulation which doesn't allow that. I prefer to have a federal regulation that says [to automakers], ?You can only do this' - rather than let them do what they want on own. Once companies put in their systems, they are not going to want to pay for retooling...
...know someone has to be the disciplinarian, it's just that we all prefer to take the cheerleader role. We've become a society of coddlers. Be it to children, employees, or students, we don't come down hard anymore. At least not in the flesh. But with a gadget in hand, we're merciless...
...said it occurs "far more." One theory is that we lose our inhibitions online - as if we've all had four beers, and so we start saying things we don't mean. No doubt that's part of it. But maybe people are actually more honest online - and we prefer it that...
...circumstances like these, your elders and betters usually advise you to get a hobby. About a year ago, I picked one: cooking. At the TIME house, photographer Franco Pagetti and I take turns making dinner. He tends to craft simple, but superb, comfort food. I prefer exotic, complicated recipes that take hours to make - the better to while away the time. The cooking bit is easy enough, but shopping for ingredients can be life-threatening. And not just for foreigners: markets are a favorite target of suicide bombers, and hundreds of Iraqis have been killed while buying groceries and vegetables...