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The Dark Side of Voting TechnologyNEW YORK – According to an unpublished “kitchen table survey,” conducted before last November’s presidential election in the United States, approximately 95% of the predominantly Hispanic members of one of America’s largest domestic unions
preferred
the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to her Republican opponent Donald Trump.
If forced to choose, they
preferred
single-market membership by large majorities.
The UK wanted a system in which global liquidity would be regulated by a multilateral institution, while the US, for self-interested reasons,
preferred
a dollar-based system.
Though Herzog and Livni – who formed the Zionist Union by merging Herzog’s Labor party and Livni’s Hatnuah party – possess several attractive qualities, they do not match the prototype
preferred
by today’s average voter.
He greatly
preferred
the Sustainable Development Goals’ predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, which were fewer in number and reflected technocratic decision-making.
Residency programs are the last stage of the medical-training process, and they often determine doctors’
preferred
practice setting.
But, so far, the US has
preferred
to pursue a bilateral approach to cyber affairs.
How can Israel’s
preferred
Palestinian leaders, Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, be left with any credible capacity to negotiate if talks cannot begin until, as Israel insists, they retreat on their minimum condition of a settlement freeze in the Occupied Territories?
In its 2009 intelligence assessment (the TE-SAT Terrorism Situation and Trend Report), Europol concluded that “Pakistan [has] replaced Iraq as
preferred
destinations for volunteers wishing to engage in armed conflict.”
Teddy Roosevelt, of course,
preferred
to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
In other words, the network provides power to achieve
preferred
outcomes with other players rather than over them.
This is the approach still
preferred
by the Obama administration, despite its poor performance.
Here I differ with many economists – including my dear friends Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Vladimir Kvint – whose
preferred
standard is the quality of life.
That said, since the Islamic Republic’s emergence in 1979, Iran’s leaders have generally
preferred
Republican presidents to Democrats: despite their harsh rhetoric, Republicans have been more willing to engage with Iran in practice.
Their
preferred
strategy, which is now gaining traction, is to move toward a “resistance economy.”
It will also confront a growing number of issues that require power with others as much as power over others in order to obtain the country’s
preferred
outcomes.
He
preferred
to concentrate on constitutional reforms that were largely interpreted as a bid to strip the new president, Stjepan Mesic (himself a longtime opponent of Tudjman) of the robust executive powers Tudjman wrote into the constitution for himself.
Or would they perhaps even have preferred, God forbid, to retain some nexus to the British Crown as a self-ruling dependency?
What is curious about this development is that the subcontinent has
preferred
to forget the monstrous injustices that have scarred its recent history.
This assumption led economists to become “intervention skeptics” who
preferred
market-based solutions for any problem where the need for regulation was not obvious.
For the most part, world leaders
preferred
not to be bothered with North Korea, and so reacted in an ad hoc way whenever it created a security problem.
While not all Nader voters would have
preferred
Gore to his Republican opponent, George W. Bush, evidence suggests that they favored him by almost 2:1.
(Only one out of 110 entrepreneurs surveyed reported that he
preferred
the old socialist ways.)
Leftist voters would have
preferred
Juppé, and will likely tolerate Fillon, but they comprised only 15% of total voters in the first round of the Republican primary, so they may not have the same impact in 2017 as they did in 2002.
Of course, Russia’s rulers have usually
preferred
myth to reality.
At the center of the first narrative,
preferred
by financial-sector executives, is the view that all necessary reforms have already been adopted (or soon will be).
Finally, the economic policies
preferred
by the “winners” – and adopted under their influence – are usually far from beneficial for all.
He probably would have
preferred
such a life, largely for the sheer power it would afford him.
He had no doubt about which vision would win out: “Yearly one nation after another would drop into the union which best suited it; and looking to the commercial activity of the Teutonic races, and the comparative torpor of the Latin races, no doubt the Teutonic money would be most frequently preferred.”
In the very first meeting, he had asked the students how many of them
preferred
free trade to import restrictions; the response was more than 90%.
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