Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wine and drama, Dionysus quips: "A little wine will get you through a lot of drama." One knows by past performance that the Sondheim lyrics are contrapuntally clever and that his music is astringently bittersweet, but the acoustics round the pool do not permit absolute proof. If Yale should opt for participatory theater, the show could close with a gorgeously refreshing swim-in. · T.E. Kalem
...outgoing panel members voted last week to recommend that the panel be dissolved. Jean Agnew, a graduate student in history and a member of the panel, said then that the vote was based on graduate student feeling that the panel served only to co-opt graduate student protest...
...History Department vote follows a recommendation made last week by current panel members that the group stop sending representatives to the CGE, a student-faculty advisory body. At that meeting, Agnew said he felt the CGE was "a cosmetic operation designed to co-opt graduate student protest...
Nonetheless, Congress is likely to approve some degree of public financing. The Senate bill permits a candidate to opt for completely public financing of a congressional or presidential general-election campaign or for a mix of public and private funding; the bill also calls for matching public and private funds in primaries. The House bill, which makes public financing mandatory for presidential elections but prohibits it entirely for congressional races, is languishing in Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays' Administration Committee. A bill submitted by Nixon limits individual giving and tightens disclosure but opposes any public financing on the grounds that...
...problems, and outline the steps that must be taken if life is to be preserved. They also try to provide an honest evaluation of the kind of life their efforts may succeed in preserving. Despite the shock and disappointment of having a deformed child, most parents automatically opt for life and urge doctors to do whatever they can to maintain it. This may change with the more open debate on whether allowing a baby to die is preferable to dooming it to an inhumanly handicapped existence...