Third, there's the small matter of Twitter's corporate lack of existential clarity – or, if you prefer, crisis.
The grim truth is that, at this point, we'd be better off if the House Republicans really were the handmaidens of corporate America, rather than ideologues who prefer crisis to compromise.
The president told reporters that his move is meant to force the outgoing ruling coalition to join forces with the leftist opposition in triggering a snap poll, a way out from the crisis preferred by the majority of Czechs.
That is partly why, until now, countries not directly affected by the crisis preferred not to be involved.
Last, it is possible that firms during the crisis preferred to retain only workers with lower expected wage growth and fired the other ones.
DealBook » WEEK IN VERSE Some shutdowns we preferred to the current crisis.
The usual criticism of economists is that they missed the crisis: they preferred their models to reality, and those models took no account of the mischief that could be caused by bankers running wild.
Baldwin rejected the request for delay, presumably because he preferred to resolve the crisis quickly.
Varoufakis recognized the many frailties in Greece's economy, but he preferred to talk of a banking crisis rather than a debt crisis, and of a European crisis rather than a Greek one.
Europe, embroiled in a severe financial crisis, prefers televised indignation — a facade of political unity and weak popular protests.
