Word: prefered
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...characteristically belligerent behavior has heightened security tensions in North Asia and lent fresh urgency to the question of how to reign him in. Iraq-obsessed U.S. diplomats, who would prefer Kim wait his turn as global bad guy, have chosen to cut off dialogue with North Korea, as well as 500,000 tons of heavy oil provided yearly under a 1994 accord. But the hard-line stance favored by Washington is worrisome to Japan and South Korea, who are within striking distance of North Korean missiles and artillery and fear Kim might act rashly if backed into a corner...
...Space doesn't permit a complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white folks that Republicans prefer to ignore, so two incidents in which Lott was deeply involved will have to suffice. As a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" - a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters...
...there are particular issues they want me to address I will be happy to. If they prefer for me to come up with something myself then I’ll do that instead,” Vaux said...
Instead of raising gobs of money for a few monastery bells, which is so clearly an atrocious waste of time and funds, why not donate some cash to a charity or a non-governmenal organization working inside Russia? Starving Siberian children, struggling Petersburg pensioners and unemployed Muscovites would certainly prefer a warm meal and a roof over their heads to big copper bells...
...Sheila R. Adams ’05, who is a council representative and worked on Chopra’s campaign, said she would prefer the results to be announced as early as possible...