"If you look at only one aspect of life, maybe you would prefer living elsewhere, there is nothing forcing you to stay here," Prime Minister Jean Chretien told a reporter last year, drawing political sustenance from public opinion polls that indicated Canadians cared more about improving health care than about cutting taxes.
Although he made the cut, there were times on Saturday when he might have preferred to be elsewhere.
Dutrow did not rule out a start there but made it clear that he preferred to race elsewhere.
The desire was understandable: for a long time Israelis — like Jews elsewhere — preferred to identify only with that tiny fragment of the Jewish population who fired shots during the Holocaust.
He felt the typical newsman's discomfort with ad salesmen, and would have preferred to begin elsewhere, but Walter Mattson, the company's first president who was not also a family member, and whom Punch had asked to help oversee the training of the next generation of Sulzbergers, decreed otherwise.
After the Holocaust, Jews in America and elsewhere preferred to put the Yiddish past behind them, and it wasn't until the 1970s that second- and third-generation Jews in the US started getting curious about the music of the Old World.
He added that none of the candidates already living on Shelter Island had passed the civil service test and that those from elsewhere preferred to join the Suffolk County Police Department, which serves the county's five western towns, because of the higher pay and lower cost of living there.
Faced with the prospect of returning to Berkeleyan metaphysics, several prominent Scottish philosophers preferred to look elsewhere, namely to Germany and Hegel.
Some entrepreneurs have stayed away because of the lack of investors, and those with the money have preferred to go elsewhere because of the greater number of companies to invest in.
