Word: preferable
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...cause a torrent of wealth to leave Japan and push international stock markets higher (or at least put a floor under their decline). But it would also mean a lower yen and thus more attractive Japanese exports. Though other economies might be leery of that, Courtis suggested they should prefer a low yen to a deeply indebted Japan. "You can't have it both ways," he said...
...honesty, I can't say I wholeheartedly support the idea that the house lights should go down at the beginning of a theatrical production. It's not that I actually prefer productions where the audience is as visible as the actors. I've only been at two shows in recent memory where that was actually the case: one at the New Globe Theater in London (which by its very nature makes it impossible to turn down the non-existent house lights) and one at the American Repertory Theater (where the house lights only stayed up for the first 20 minutes...
Many speakers at the meeting said they objected to the Trust funding individuals, saying they prefer to have the funds affect as many undergraduates as possible...
...raids, concentrating their fire exclusively on Israeli troops occupying Lebanese territory - but they're plainly in no hurry to relieve the mounting domestic political pressure on Barak to withdraw from Lebanon. The Israeli prime minister set himself a July deadline for withdrawing his forces, unilaterally if necessary. Barak would prefer, of course, to have negotiated security guarantees with Syria to cover that retreat. Despite ratcheting up the pressure, though, Damascus doesn't want a unilateral Israeli withdrawal. "If Israel leaves Lebanon before there's a comprehensive peace deal with Syria," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott McLeod, "the Syrians...
OLYMPIC GOLD A Harris Interactive poll reveals that U.S children ages 6 to 17 prefer the Olympic Games to any other major sporting event. More kids say they like the Olympics than the Super Bowl, the World Series, the soccer World Cup and even the youth-oriented X Games. Because a Summer or Winter Olympics comes only once every two years, the pollsters believe that enthusiasm for watching the Games is passed down as a family activity by parents or older siblings...