Word: preferable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...millennium, rapid change (technological, social, cultural) has become so pervasive in American life and sometimes so difficult to absorb - think of the genome project and its implications, to cite one of a thousand examples in a world of techno-miracle and deconstructed tradition - that voters might actually prefer continuity of political leadership...
...finest players to wealthy European teams. Still, FIFA delegates continued to hold out the promise of 2010, although it's hard to see what might change in South Africa over the next four years to make soccer's disproportionately European powers-that-be more amenable. Given the choice, they prefer to play the game on home - or at least familiar - ground, hooligan hordes...
...confident enough not to need the Tall Clubs International, but I do like to know that it's out there. I much prefer the unspoken bonds I have with my fellow tall person--the subway nods, the silent empathy, the knowing gazes...
...plaintiffs: Don't expect any crying for David Koresh. Caddell has long claimed that his opening arguments would kick off with the words "I am not here to defend David Koresh." He'd much prefer that the trial deal not with why the FBI siege began, but with how it was ended: with a plan whose tactics had critics within the law-enforcement agency, whose execution was less than perfect, and the end result of which was the fiery death of women and children as well as the bad guys. Who started the fire - the key point for conspiracy theorists...
...other side (and on an axis that runs through Hollywood and Redmond, Wash.) we have the People of the Screen. The People of the Screen tend to ignore the classic logic of books; they prefer the dynamic flux of the screen. Movie screens, TV screens, computer screens, Game Boy screens, telephone screens, pager screens and Day-Glo megapixel screens we can only imagine today, plastered on every surface...