Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Algeria says that it does not want the land for itself, but does not want Morocco's right-wing monarchy to have it either. Instead, Algiers favors self-determination, assuming that the Sahara's 70,000 or 80,000 nomads would opt for Algerian-style Islamic socialism. Hassan also assumes they would go socialist and fears that his own shaky regime could not survive if it were surrounded by hostile states...
Confronted by these myriad economic woes, Trudeau last week felt he had little choice but to opt for controls. Scarcely a month ago, popular Finance Minister John Turner focused public attention on the issue when he gave up trying to win support for voluntary wage-price restraints and quit the Liberal Cabinet. His replacement, former Energy Minister Donald Macdonald, was promptly handed two choices by ministry staffers: an outright 90-day freeze on all wages and prices, plus other rigid measures-the policy advocated by the Conservatives-or a program of selective controls combined with cutbacks in federal spending. Macdonald...
Muscatine said she estimated the tennis team would opt for "Harvard." She said that "to a lot of people 'Radcliffe athletics' is a ha-ha, a question mark. We want to be taken seriously...
...state fosters the growth of groups small enough to accomodate (imagine the costs if the government actually wanted to help out all workers) and small enough to feel the benefits of a concession. Glazer and Moynihan neglect to mention the relative ease with which a state can co-opt and control an oppressed and potentially troublesome group once they are convinced they must fight for their own sliver of the pie rather than join ranks with other hungry people...
...Tupelo, Miss, disk jockey and Davis protege, whom Sir John last October promoted from deputy chief to chief executive. Dowson rapidly concluded he would never have real authority as long as Sir John was around. Finding himself unable to challenge Davis in a boardroom battle, he apparently decided to opt for a lucrative early retirement by taking on Sir John in a bedroom farce...