In May 2003, when NBC was bidding for the rights to London and Vancouver, GE stepped in and, for an undisclosed sum, secured "preferred vendor status"–part of the record $1.5 billion in sponsorship fees that Beijing has raised.
Having secured preferred bidder status, the FOH had "broken through the 7,000-member 7,000-memberdges and had the support of every key independent supporter organisation, Southern stressed.
The wise or virtuous person acts with a view to obtaining preferred items and avoiding their opposites, but it is as an expression of his perfected reason that acts of selection are good, not because they secure, or tend to secure, preferred items for him or protect, or tend to protect, him from their dispreferred opposites.
It also leads to greater success with securing preferred Foundation School posts in students.
Though the ruthlessly efficient Baker preserved — or, if you prefer, secured — Bush's victory in Florida during the contentious 2000 presidential election, he has always been condemned by the right as a moderate.
And rather than download people's financial data from government sources — which Mr. Williams said might not be very secure — Intuit prefers to connect its systems to banks, employers and other private companies to obtain taxpayers' information, he said.
Violently disrupting a classroom was preferred to securing a safe learning environment.
Shell "would obviously have preferred to secure OPL245 without going within a million miles of Malabu and Etete," says someone who was involved in the negotiations.Ethical dilemmasThe saga is a striking example of an ethical dilemma that is growing more acute for international oil companies.
One compelling witness was Jesús Zambada García, El Mayo's brother and the cartel accountant, who laid out with the cool aplomb of an astute businessman particulars of his delivery overheads and profit margin targets, stressing that he preferred to secure five investors for each consignment: his brother, Guzmán and three other cartel leaders.
When state expenditures exceeded its revenues, Jennings preferred to secure the state's debts with bank loans to cover the shortfall rather than issuing treasury notes.
Often one must resort to what has come to be called cost-benefit analysis trying to do that which is most likely to secure what one prefers most overall with as little cost as possible.
