Word: preference
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...Harvard Crimson: Do you prefer the life of a professor and academic to the life of a university president...
...When students were asked to set financial concerns aside, they said they would prefer to work in the arts, media, and public service rather than in business, consulting, and finance (20 percent said they would remain in those sectors...
...Physics 12 and Chem 5a for the Core—presumably to ease the lot of premeds, until now the most hapless victims of Core rigidity. There is no need to eliminate the many fine courses already established which approach these disciplines more imaginatively; some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course of art in the Western world than by examining “The Development of the String Quartet.” And it would be shameful to continue forcing students to eschew...
Savannah's ability to balance imports and exports has been key to its rapid rise. Ship owners much prefer full vessels to empty ones. Savannah has been a raw-material exporter since the days of King Cotton, and its big challenge used to be finding enough imports to fill incoming ships. Port officials solved that by persuading the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Ikea to take advantage of ample vacant land near the port (something you don't find in New York or L.A.) to build distribution centers where they could unload merchandise from overseas and ship...
...Despite the groundswell of support, some Iranian insiders believe that Larijani will ultimately prefer to remain as parliament speaker rather than risk losing to Ahmadinejad in the '09 race. "He may see that he has little chance of being elected President, and that it's better to exercise influence as the head of one of the branches of government," a Tehran analyst told TIME. More an intellectual than a politician - he wrote a doctoral thesis on German philosophy - Larijani finished near the bottom in the 2005 multi-candidate election that brought Ahmadinejad to power...