Struggling to find funds as they sank into a sea of toxic property loans, Spain's ailing savings banks sold preference shares aggressively.
In early July, the bank publicly asked for forgiveness from customers — notably depositors who, before the bank's collapse, had been sold preference shares, a convertible debt instrument that plunged in value, leading to protests and lawsuits.
The baker said his cake-selling preferences flowed from his religious views, but, as a judge nicely articulated, it was actually factually illegal discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Suddenly Facebook (and Microsoft) have a huge problem, as we use Circles to obsolete the Facebook personal graph while selling our media preferences to the highest bidder.
But his preference for selling stakes to "strategic" buyers has drawn criticism from opponents who say public flotations are more equitable and less likely to lead to closings and layoffs at the acquired company.
While some suitors proposed splitting the business into its two parts, the music label and its valuable publishing arm, Warner Music's board expressed a preference for selling the company as a whole.
Mr. Gingrich, who now holds strong leads in the latest polls in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, may be having the last laugh after a mutiny by staff members this spring who complained about his preference for selling books and DVDs of movies he makes with his wife, Callista, over meeting with voters.
We're sure we don't have to remind you about the Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO's not-so-popular preference for selling his clothes exclusively to "cool," "good-looking" folks (and not "larger people," as industry expert Robin Lewis suggested).
This -- along with producers' preference for selling the oil on the east and west coasts, which are largely inaccessible by most pipelines but where the oil fetches a higher price -- has led to a surge in oil-by-rail shipment.
