11.   Many business owners prefer to give equal shares in the business to all their children, regardless of whether they are involved in the family business.

12.   NFL owners also would prefer to have two teams in the Los Angeles area.

13.   Owners often prefer to meet invisibly, too.

14.   Some owners would prefer to keep the current system and let the players keep bleeding.

15.   That alignment would have required interleague games throughout the season, and the owners preferred playing those games in clusters, as they did this past season.

16.   The owner prefers the three-dot column penned by Stanford, a former private eye who was a crusading columnist at the Oregonian for seven years.

17.   The owner prefers to load the yacht into a huge open tanker to be carried to the Mediterranean, avoiding wear and tear on the engine and fittings.

18.   The owners prefer to put the onus on the Players Association, whose pension fund reportedly is overfunded.

19.   Wisely, most club owners in sports prefer the shadows, but Jerry Jones is always center stage.

20.   Carpet factory owners prefer children because their tiny fingers make the smallest, tightest knots, and hence the best carpets.