"I don't think we would have preferred anyone in particular.
A plurality (37%) would not have preferred anyone different.
But plastic is also durable and indispensable, and although a majority of Republican voters in the primaries so far have preferred Anyone but Romney, he appears poised to win the party's presidential nomination.
I didn't understand any of this, particularly the joy in the Republican camp -- weren't these the same people that preferred anyone, including someone married to Marcus Bachmann, to Mitt?
"Well, I prefer anyone else.
"Although it does not justify our mistake," he said, "we do believe that if a free opinion poll is conducted in the U.S., a majority of Americans would prefer anyone outside the U.S. political system to President Barack Obama".
Suppose that each item is a task and we want to find an allocation that minimizes the completion time of the last task in an envy-free manner, where no agent prefers anyone else's allocated task bundle over its own.
Or, if you prefer, anyone who wants to hold this job must swallow the whole pill (which may not, in fact, be a bad metaphor, since the outer coating of doing provides the immediate effect, while each successive layer in this time-release capsule provides deeper, less accessible, but more long-term effects).
A distribution of goods is said to be "envy-free" when no one prefers anyone else's bundle of resources to her own.[23] The suggestion here is not that envy is the psychological motivation for the concern with equality, but rather that, where a distribution in fact produces envy, this is grounds to doubt the fairness of the distribution.
"Although it does not justify our mistake, we do believe that if a free opinion poll is conducted in the US, a majority of Americans would prefer anyone outside the US political system to President Barack Obama and American statesmen," the Fars story quoted the unnamed editor as saying.
Having preferred almost anyone to Smith during his reign so far, England coach Steve McNamara is running out of legitimate alternatives.
