This could be obvious things like height or age but it also could be things like attitudes toward capital punishment, preference for the Red Sox over the Yankees. Right?

在身高和年龄方面比较突出,在其他方面,像对待死刑的态度，稀饭红袜队？

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Worse, banks have come to rely on issuing their own preference shares to raise capital, and will find that harder if holders of Fannie's and Freddie's paper suffer losses.

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He was wary of a creeping relativism - the idea that all was a matter of opinion and preference and that Truth, with a capital "T" did not exist.

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But Congress has already raised rates on capital gains and dividends since the TPC estimate, reducing the value of the preference.

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