Its governor, Mervyn King, hates the phrase "quantitative easing" and prefers to call it credit easing.

This is a ranking that many local politicians and the new governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, prefer to do without.

While the governor would have preferred to avoid any income tax increase, his administration has already used billions of dollars in bonds to balance its budgets.

The governor prefers oral presentations to leafing through briefing books.

For that reason, planetary governors preferred to administrate from an orbiting station, which kept a warmer artificial environment far better suited to Klingons.

The governors would prefer that if someone has to take the blame for higher taxes, it be the Federal Government.

"I'm dead certain that the governor would prefer Jeanine."

The governor preferred someone who supported national women's suffrage and prohibition, and he shared with McNary an interest in farming.

Even a governor who supported the agenda of the Atheist Left might prefer judges who would not be instantly engulfed in an ugly personal scandal.

It now seems clear that the governors prefer a uniform national approach to federal roadless areas rather than piecemeal management.