The administration prefers to keep policy and budget decisions to itself.

But the administration apparently prefers not to ask industry to bear even those small costs.

The administration would really prefer the aggressive states go away.

The Administration prefers off-budget financing of the $157 billion program.

But he said the administration preferred a cooperative approach.

Most incoming administrations prefer to express their own vision of the future.

The Administration itself prefers to call such estimates "goals."

Had it done nothing, which the Administration preferred, foreign investors, who hold an increasing slice of our national debt, would worry.

The administration preferred a department that would essentially rely on those agencies to analyze most such intelligence.

"A new administration prefers to take bad medicine early on, so the post-election year is usually not terribly good for the stock market," he said.