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Nearly half of those surveyed said they preferred to pay by card or contactless payment on their phones.

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But does the same thing apply to the customers who prefer to play it safe, those fixed-income investors?

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British Jews, some 300,000 in a population of nearly 70 million, have preferred to be self-effacing.

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The Democrats prefer to keep funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to insurance companies while the American people get less choice, smaller provider networks, poorer outcomes, higher insurance premiums, higher copayments and higher deductibles.

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Its mission was to produce prose in the style of Herman Melville’s famous story “Bartleby the Scrivener,” about an office worker who responds to his boss’s requests with “I would prefer not to.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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