One person preferred Burlington because Portsmouth had "a preponderance of women with sleeve tattoos," said Tom Cocchiaro of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, while someone else preferred Vermont because it does not have billboards.
Eagleton finds an inspiring model in Jesus, but someone else might prefer Oprah.
Right now, this is hard to scale to individuals: one person may like heavy metal for getting up in the morning, while someone else may prefer Coldplay.
Are you walking your talk or are you spending on someone else's preferred lifestyle because you think that's what you should want?
If you own common stock and someone else has preferred at the same valuation, if the company is bought at a break-even price, the preferred shareholders will get their money back first, and you may not receive anything.
There are many possibilities, with the main factor being that you are happy with it and don't feel pressured into doing what someone else would prefer.
A living trust works like this: You and your spouse transfer all of your assets into a revocable trust, naming yourself (or someone else, if you prefer) the trustee and a successor trustee for after your death.
If the guy doesn't like you at all, or has told you that he prefers someone else, then it is preferable to distance one's self instead of pushing one's self to the guy.
She turned 16 in May but still prefers someone else to do the driving on the three-hour commute from Long Island to her practices in Hackensack, N.J. "I am begging for her to learn how to drive," Wagner said.
And President Bush has made it clear that when it comes to rebuilding Afghanistan, he prefers someone else do the heavy lifting (though it seems likely that the United States will be stuck with much of the task).
The main insight: people were generally reluctant to be the person making the decision, instead preferring someone else to decide where to eat.
