The company has favored acquisitions in categories it knows well, namely goods sold on grocery store shelves.

Other companies generally favor open competition but object to specific language in the bill.

Not all industry executives agree, either, although most companies favor a significant rollback of regulations.

As long as they were under the gun, polluting companies favored a new, less cumbersome system of pollution control.

The company, she added, also favors broad subjects rather than narrow ones presented from a single point of view.

Carolyn Brown, a spokeswoman for Ford, said her company did not favor special licensing.

Other companies favor cooling from the outside in.

These companies, they say, favor doctors who charge the lowest fees, driving some practitioners from the profession.

Start-up companies, like American Personal Communications, favor the 47-segment approach.

We quiz each other on the special words that companies favor in their recruiting literature.