Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onlooker rapidly to Cloherty's everyday battle jargon. Quiet, qualmless talk of a decision to print Watergate grand-jury transcripts in the column, even when "we knew it [news of the cover-up] would come out sooner or later," or of the staff's standard operating procedure to opt against self-censorship "in 99 out of 100 cases" makes the onlooker wonder whether the Anderson Superman world consists of anything other than faster-than-sound scoops and ground rules laid...
...there was anything one can point to as having had a decisive effect on the outcome, I opt for the diving...
Having completed half a year, I think that pass/fail relieves some of the pressures on a student and leaves more time for extracurricular activities. Second, I find that pass/fail encourages many new students to opt for the harder, more advanced courses -courses a student being graded might skip for slower-paced versions in which he was more likely...
...take an art course," says Northwestern's Baker, who thinks a student should be able to broaden his horizons without risking poor grades in subjects in which he has interest but perhaps little aptitude. In New York, City University Professor Philip Baumel goes even farther. "Most students usually opt for pass/fail for the right reasons," he insists. But Baumel, too, has noted a trend away from the new system: "There's a move now to say, 'Let's do it the conventional way.' " Asked to grade the system in its own terms, a growing number...
...chemical byproduct of crude oil from which records are made. As a result of oil shortages, Columbia has been forced to suspend its $1.98 Harmony pop label; it also trimmed its November output by postponing several releases until 1974. In general, the industry will probably have to opt for greater selectivity in its releases-or, as Lieberson puts it, "an end to buckshotting-throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks...