"I would rather manage than do anything else in the game," McRae said, explaining his masochism.
But she eventually realized she would rather manage the construction of complex buildings than draw their blueprints.
The retailers ignore the subcontracting because they would rather manage fewer big contracts, and the per-piece price of garments falls with bigger orders.
"When you think about what you would rather manage at an airline, you would rather deal with demand cessation than $150 oil," Richard H. Anderson, the chief executive at Delta, said in a conference call.
In recent years, Mr. Zhou — who no longer paints, but rather manages a studio with several assistants who execute his ideas — has enhanced his profile by lending his name and expertise to major art endeavors in his hometown.
The chef's innovations don't seem stuffy (like some other haute Hellenic restaurants here and abroad), but rather manage to balance elegance with the long tradition of Greek cooking that gave the United States the diner and the modern marshmallow.
To date, you have ably educated Congress and the public on why the rise of China and other trading partners is not to be feared or begrudged, but rather managed.
"The bank decided it would rather manage the trust internally," said Richard Mittenthal, president of TCC Group, a consulting firm that set up and administered the previous grant program for Marine Midland.
The implication is that companies should not focus only on the characteristics of single external parties when developing a collaborative innovation strategy, but, rather, manage carefully a balanced portfolio of collaborators.
Here's a common question usually avoided in polite company: "Would you rather manage a Wall Street firm or own shares in one?" You have two seconds to answer.
