Word: prefereable
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...these two frosh sound familiar, it may be because they also both starred at quarterback for the freshman football team last fall, jointly leading the Yardlings through a 5-1 campaign. Asked which sport they prefer, each responded that he likes the one he is playing better...
Part of that is due to Congress's pusillanimity--most lawmakers would prefer simply to go along with the president than dissent and stir up trouble. But Congress' powerlessness in war deliberations is exacerbated by loopholes in the War Powers Resolution that allow the president to avoid consulting legislators...
...result, his market includes tax avoiders, intelligence agencies, political bribers, arms dealers, narcotics traffickers and national leaders bent on looting their countries (Manuel Noriega was a customer). Former B.C.C.I. bankers estimate that 15% to 20% of B.C.C.I.'s multibillion-dollar cash flow involved flight capital -- "unofficial money," as they prefer to call...
That's the kind of suicidal challenge that Democrats, who prefer running against each other to running against a Republican, usually rise to. So far, it has not been enough to draw out dark horse Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Senator whose vote against using force in the gulf is offset by his Vietnam War record. Yet it did bring out one dark, dark horse: former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, who announced he might run while fellow liberal Michael Dukakis was vacationing in Hawaii and unavailable for comment...
...anti-Saddam team and a NATO member, fears that any gains made by Iraq's Kurds would embolden Turkey's own 8 million-member Kurdish minority, which has fought a bloody secessionist campaign for seven years. Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran also have large Kurdish communities that they prefer to see quiescent...