When it does, companies may well prefer filling positions with external candidates to hiring internally.
The Agnellis and other shareholders might well prefer to hold shares in GM.
The current leaders may well prefer to maintain their position, power and control.
Possibly not much: before long, even racegoers betting £2 or £5 may well prefer to gamble via their mobile phones.
BP may well prefer a negotiated settlement for liability and damages under those statutes to a long and costly trial.
Ethiopia and others may well prefer to see a weak and wretched Somalia rather than a united and Islamist one.
BP may well prefer a negotiated settlement of these damages to a long and potentially damaging trial.
Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton may well prefer to see the clerical regime go nuclear than strike it preventively.
A listener who simply cannot stand advertising might well prefer Sirius, which broadcasts no commercials on its 60 music channels.
These folks might well prefer a plain-spoken war hero like Mr McCain to the articulate and arugula-munching Mr Obama.
However tortuous the past nine years' road to national reconciliation may have been, they may well prefer it to this belated out-with-the-villains alternative.
