Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People ask if I will run for governor again. I don't want to do that, even though I loved the job," says Evans. He says he would prefer to wait and see what fate drops...
...were to head the State Department, Fulbright would have had to resign his Senate seat. After his four or eight years in office were up, he would be out the federal government. After considering the situation, Fulbright went to a presidential advisor and said that he would prefer not to be appointed...
Some of the show's best groaners come when the characters pair off at the end. Tom Collins offers his bride to be "roses on the piano," but Ginny Tonic thinks he'd prefer "tulips on your organ...
Most auto-rental customers want brand-new models with few miles on them. But National Car Rental is assembling a fleet for motorists who prefer cars with tail fins, gleaming chrome and wide whitewalls. At several of National's major outlets in Florida and California, the agency has begun offering dozens of carefully restored 1950s and '60s autos. Among them: Thunderbirds, Buick Roadmasters and even Studebakers...
...billion in tax breaks and other incentives extended to the buyers. Critics contend that the regulators were taken for a ride. Fumed Iowa's Leach: "The dealmakers are laughing all the way to the piggy bank." But Wall staunchly defends his deals as the lesser of evils. "I much prefer to be damned for having done something than to be damned for doing nothing," he says. In fact, the cleanup is showing some results. The thrift industry's 1988 third-quarter loss of $1.6 billion was down from $3.9 billion in each of the previous two quarters...