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Liquidity preference is a strategic consideration: the ability to see as a possible future game a situation where liquidity would be preferable, and rolling back to the present to save liquidity rather than spend it, even though the price / utility function based on the general level of prices might well be in favor of spending now.— The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
One bigger than my head is preferable, as it will last me all day.— justJENN rants & raves
It's fine -- preferable, perhaps -- to have different displays and areas for all the different flavours of the comics artform.— The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy
Even ISO 80 has more noise than would be preferable, and by ISO 200, the issue is in full swing.— DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews
Eventually, they came together and established what Prince Turki described as a preferable institutional dialogue, rather than being subject to the "whim and will" of two heads of state.— Israel Palestine Blogs

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