Word: prefered
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...Alcohol policies on college campus seldom prove popular among the student populations. Following repeated incidents of dangerous binge drinking and routine hospitalization for alcohol-related concerns, college administrators rightly increase their concern for the well-being of their charges. But as recent events at Harvard have proven, deans prefer to impose liability-proof safeguards—tedious paperwork for registering parties, imperious oversight by entryway proctors, and severely curtailed access to alcohol in general—rather than opt for the more arduous but perhaps more far-seeing approach of encouraging a culture of personal responsibility and maturity. Inevitably...
...Last year pirates attacked 269 ships, took nearly 300 hostages and killed five people. That represents a 10% increase over the previous year, and it's probably only the half of it, given International Maritime Bureau estimates that an equal number of attacks go unreported. Shipping companies often prefer to swallow their losses than to risk losing customers or insurance rate hikes...
According to the report, over 70 percent of Americans say that they would prefer to die at home, but just one fifth of deaths in Massachusetts occurred in homes in 1997. While there has been some legislative action to increase end-of-life options, the effect has been minimal. By 2005, the number had only risen to 22 percent...
...Conversely, even if you got a great price on a rug that doesn't fit in your apartment, you're still a sucker. Early on, I decided that I much prefer simple, single-knot tribal rugs that have a homespun quality to them, as opposed to the grand, Persian, double-knot silk carpets that go well in a living room full of ivory elephant tusks. This may mean my tastes aren't very elevated, but it has saved me a lot of money...
...coal industry would prefer not to go out of business, and it is trying to delay big emissions cuts for a decade or two, until it perfects the technology to capture and store the CO2 its power plants emit. Lieberman and Warner won't delay those cuts (Clinton, Obama and McCain don't want to either), but they want coal to survive, so their bill gives the industry $235 billion for R&D over the next 20 years. Even so, politicians who represent what's left of America's coal-fired industrial heartland aren't rushing to support the bill...