Word: preferable
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Anne Guepiere works in the Hong Kong office of a large U.S. company that would prefer to remain nameless. At about 4 o'clock last Thursday, she received an e-mail. It seemed innocuous enough. The subject line read ILOVEYOU. With it came an attached document labeled LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS. How nice. Just a couple of clicks, and her curiosity would be satisfied...
...boys were traipsing around in droopy pants with the crotch below the knees and unlaced basketball shoes and baseball caps turned backward, a costume that gives me the creeps, especially the backward cap. It's painful to see young men grasping at boyishness, knowing that most young women prefer men to boys, but maybe a night in waltz land will help...
...Access to political information and resources is a big issue," wrote Anne Aaron, IOP director of outreach and communications in an e-mail message. "Students say they would prefer that political information be better, that political involvement be made easier. They also want better and easier access to direct democracy; they expressed strong support for measures that would simplify the process of registering and voting...
What really distinguishes the biztiques, though, is the attention they lavish on guests. Doormen remember your name, and desk managers keep a record of which rooms you've stayed in and note the Champagne you prefer. Peter McKillop, director of corporate communications for J.P. Morgan in Asia, was enthralled when he heard that the hotel operator at the Lowell had intercepted an unwanted early wake-up by graciously asking a caller in Tokyo whether she realized it was 4:30 a.m. in New York City. XV Beacon supplied an interior decorator for a guest's new home in Boston...
...Bloke is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. (We have other kinds, such as Rupert Murdoch, but we prefer to call them emigres.) The classic Bloke is not a voluble beast. His speech patterns are best described as infrequent but colorful. Mel Gibson once described a director as "slick as eel snot." And this was a director he liked. Crowe's rock band is called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts...