His lower tolerance for risk and preference to keep cash will be a welcome balance to my gain-chasing impulses.
Torre stated his preference to keep Mendoza, having seen how valuable the right-hander had been to the Yankees in recent years.
Her confidants concluded that she did not want to be challenged over her preference to keep the pneumonia private and continue working.
"He seems determined to stay in power with a preference to keep both hats," Mr. Rizvi said, referring to the civilian post of president and head of the military.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has voiced support for Kurdish statehood, taking a position that appears to clash with the US preference to keep sectarian war-torn Iraq united.
Aside from the Romney team's preference to keep the discussion on the economy, they likely feel that the less this election centers on discussions of religions with a history of bigotry, the better.
Coe, in charge of the 2012 organising committee, expressed a preference to keep athletes in the home environment leading up to the Games after experiencing the atmosphere in Vancouver last month, but Van Commenee says he has no qualms about forging his own path.
Cleopatra playing "billiards"; an ancient Briton mocked as a "base football player"; Pistol, living in early 15th-century London, characterised as a regular at the Playhouse - these were all part of Shakespeare's preference to keep his audience colloquially involved and in a state of spontaneous recognition rather than satisfied scholarship.
"I think the way to understand Obama's approach — I wouldn't call it a strategy — is that he has a uniform preference to keep most problems at a distance," said Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies who worked for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and helped develop Mr. Romney's critique of Mr. Obama's approach.
For them, planning is a higher-risk endeavor, and usually they'd rather not plan anything at all, since if they're busy, they likely have a preference to keep their free time just that – free.
