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In the bitter phrase of Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he sparred for years, he preferred to view men like ants.
ECONOMIST: Claude L��vi-Strauss
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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said it was worth discussion but it "would not be a preferred option from the Canadian point of view".
BBC: Mixed response to transaction tax idea
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The public pensions funds and endowments and other institutional investors that entrust money with these firms are often taking the same long-term view on returns that the general partners have preferred.
FORBES: Private Equity Turns its Eyes towards Underwriting Fees
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So in the view of Obama's Jewish advisers, his preferred method of isolating Iran is to attack Israel.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Netanyahu, Obama's newest prop
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He says lots of bankers asked him if he wanted to buy back the business, but that he preferred to look through the windshield, and not the rear-view mirror.
FORBES: Connect
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Particularly in light of Iran's nuclear weapons program and the Iranian regime's expressed goal of destroying Israel, the Bush administration preferred to scuttle the conference rather than give any credence to the view that Israel's purported nuclear arsenal is a greater threat to global security than Iran's nuclear program - which, as in today's draft, wasn't mentioned in Egypt's resolution five years ago.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Netanyahu, Obama's newest prop
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Although Guardi is best known today as a vedutista, or view painter, the British aristocrats on their "Grand Tour" preferred the near-photographic precision of Canaletto's views to take home as souvenirs.
WSJ: Appreciating Francesco Guardi's Changing Genres/ A Guardi Retropsective at Museo Correr in Venice
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Three months ago, Microsoft, which had promised to offer a "choice screen" from which users could pick the browser they preferred, was upbraided by the EU's competition commissioner, who said many users had not been able to view a choice of screen between February 2009 and July 2012.
BBC: Microsoft hit with formal warning on browser choice from EU