Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension of the moment, the Big Green's thrusts were obscured by fan speculation on what the team would do after it scored the touchdown. A one point conversion would tie it, though most believed that Jake Crouthamel would opt for the daring and send his team in for a two-pointer and the kill...
...where and when. But beside the assumption of a career lurks the ominous shadow of a husband, the how of the future, for the now so dog-eared question has yet to be answered satisfactorily: how to combine a full career with a family, removing the need to opt for one or the other...
...Ford and Reagan: blacks, organized labor, the Spanish speaking and blue-collar workers. He also seems considerably less attractive to voters in general than to Republican party workers. In a nationwide TIME-Yankelovich survey of 1,048 registered voters in June, 29% said they would be less likely to opt for the Republican ticket if Connally were the vice-presidential candidate; only 19% claimed they would be more inclined to support the G.O.P. if he were aboard; the rest said it would make no difference or were unsure...
...their architects just as confidently designed huge structures to fill the voids. The trouble was that instead of creating new life and vigor downtown, the projects were all too often sterile and uninviting-reason enough, though there were others as well, for businesses and middle-class city dwellers to opt for the suburbs. In 1966 Edward J. Logue, then the highly respected chief of Boston's redevelopment program, succinctly defined the times. "We have raised the right to be ugly to the level of the Bill of Rights," he told a congressional subcommittee. "By the millions, American tourists have...
...serve at least 200,000 pupils in triple shifts−must take some subjects in Afrikaans, the Dutch-based language that, along with English, is one of the two official languages for white South Africa. What particularly angered the students was that blacks in tribal areas were allowed to opt for classes in either tongue, as well as in African languages. Most of them chose English; Afrikaans, for blacks, is not only the primary language of the government, the civil service and the hated police, but is also, as one Soweto teacher put it, "a symbol of our oppression...