Treasury notes and bonds are the favored vehicle for many portfolio managers when they expect a sharp drop in interest rates.

As the size of outstanding issues has increased over the years, 30-year Treasury bonds have become the financial world's most favored vehicle for placing a bet on the direction of interest rates.

Either way, the piano and the voice are the favored vehicles of Schumann's trenchant, evocative powers.

For all the Sturm und Drang endured by stock market investors in recent months, equities have remained the favored vehicle.

Today, the foundation, which Carnegie perfected as a philanthropic instrument, remains the favored vehicle through which the wealthy channel beneficences.

Political Labeling Only in the last 18 months, as Congress has pushed hard for legislation to improve child care, has the tax credit become the favored vehicle.

Mutual funds, the favored vehicle for middle-class investors.

And children are the favored vehicles.

"Lucia" was first performed in 1835 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and became a favored vehicle for prima donnas from that day to this.

When the battalion was founded in 1860, horses were the favored vehicle, but eventually they were traded in for tanks, which were parked on 19 acres behind the building.