Word: prefers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood's research arm), 10 percent of all college-age women become pregnant. Further, the Institute's research indicates that most women would prefer not to have an abortion, but are driven to make that choice primarily because they lack financial resources and emotional support...
...Many young Libyans prefer to get their news from the Internet rather than the turgid evening news programs filled with slogans and clichés. And yet their conclusions may not be that different from those on the nightly news. In an Internet café where Epson printers are for sale in a glass case, former Libyan Airways employee Mohammed Hussein, who completed an M.A. in the U.S., offers a typical view of the Lockerbie trial. "There was no solid evidence against the two in this case," he says. "It is a verdict that does not make sense. America...
Knowing the future would be as much a burden as a boon. If we are given the winning numbers in the lottery next week, might we also be told much else about which we would prefer to remain in ignorance? A just God, never mind the demanding and sometimes ironic God of the Old Testament, would surely cause us to know our future failures as well as our future triumphs. Along with the winning lottery number might come knowledge of the day and place and cause of our death, or the loss of a loved one, or details...
...Barak, too, may ultimately prefer the national unity option. It makes sense for him in some ways, but there's so much maneuvering going on that it's too early to pin down. Sharon has said he wants a unity government, with Barak as defense minister. But Barak can't publicly favor a unity government, because the basis of his campaign is that Sharon is beyond the pale - "Too extreme for Israel," as one of his campaign slogans goes. This even though a couple of months ago Barak was trying to get Sharon into a unity government. Still...
Wang Xuebing never wears polyester suits with white socks. He claims to prefer fine French restaurants to karaoke and hostesses, vintage Bordeaux to rice wine. One of China's most prominent bankers, Wang speaks fluent English garnished with appropriate jokes and has a confident, firm handshake?enough to put the most leery American businessmen at ease. "You wished there were more internationally savvy guys like him in China," says an American investment banker in Hong Kong. "He even has a good golf handicap...