Word: prefered
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Blue Team members, numbering perhaps 40, keep in touch via e-mail and sometimes gather for drinks at the American Tavern on F Street in Washington. Many prefer to operate behind the scenes, relishing their role as insurgents. "It isn't politically correct to be with us," says William Triplett, a congressional staff member who coined the term Blue Team, after the code name that China gives its enemy in war games, and who wrote with Timperlake a book on China's military, Red Dragon Rising. Blue Teamers helped write and promote the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, a controversial bill...
...Britain disapprove of the government's handling of the crisis, so Blair's in a difficult bind. It's not yet clear whether they're going to go ahead with inoculation, although they've been granted permission by the E.U. to go ahead. Many people in these farming communities prefer the idea of slaughter to vaccination, because current technology doesn't properly discriminate between the presence of antibodies as a result of infection and the presence of antibodies as a result of inoculation. That could mean that Britain would lose up to $1.5 billion in lost exports to countries that...
...character that exists only in cyberspace - will greet us when we turn on our televisions. "Good evening, you have five e-mail messages waiting. Would you like to read them now? While you were at work today I downloaded some of your favorite music from the Internet. Would you prefer to listen to that or look over the selection of broadcast TV shows and movies that I saved...
...Both PVRs and video-on-demand allow for that personal touch. Would you like to see Penélope Cruz or Gérard Depardieu? Do you prefer dramas or comedies? Just select your favorite actors and film genre on your TV's "personal screen," and all the programs matching those keywords will be automatically recorded...
...expensive digitals are not necessarily better for everyone. "Digital aids have gotten a lot of press, but there's little hard research that they're better than the others," says Laurie Hanin, director of audiology for the League for the Hard of Hearing in New York City. "Some people prefer the sound quality of digital aids and feel they help with understanding speech in noisy situations, but many people do very well with conventional analog aids...