That timetable still leaves him months to campaign strenuously, on a shorter schedule in late summer and fall -- one that the mayor has long preferred, given that he has full-time duties in New York City.
In this respect, Trump is the true representative of a party that has, for far too long, preferred to indulge all the dangers that Lincoln warned of and done nothing to protect itself, much less the nation, against them.
The standards board is moving to end one of two ways that mergers are now accounted for, the so-called pooling method, that companies have long preferred.
Late last week, trucks carrying armored vehicles, missile launchers, artillery pieces and tanks rumbled down a highway in the north Sinai, the first steps in a government campaign to extend its control over a region that it had long preferred to forget.
Commuters have long preferred cars and buses.
American has long preferred blue-chip stocks.
Each event followed a pattern developed through long experience confronting those who would prefer that progressive voices aren't heard.
