Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week since April, with the employees taking off at noon every Friday and making up for the lost production by working an extra 45 minutes on other days. In Florida, the state department of transportation is now allowing some of its 10,000 employees to opt, if they wish, for a four-day week of ten-hour days...
...report. But the addition of "Foreign Languages and Cultures" in place of "Non-Western Civilization" effectively eliminates Rosovsky's hopes for everyone learning about Third World or Socialist systems. The Faculty's resolution to try to tie the programs to language study further insures that students will probably opt for European offerings instead of non-western courses...
Unfortunately, the issue is not so simple. As doctors pointed out at the Kansas City hearings, many cancer victims opt for Laetrile even when there is still a good chance that conventional therapy will help them, thus seriously jeopardizing their hopes for recovery. Philadelphia Surgeon Jonathan Rhoads Sr. was not alone when he testified that such cases "have happened in my own practice." The FDA has another fear. If Laetrile is legalized - without a scintilla of proof that it works - the door could be opened to a host of phony cures and bring a return to what one American Cancer...
...costs through 1985, and that would have to be passed on in higher electricity rates to users. Coal lobbyists will join the attack: they fear that if power plants are forced to install scrubbers, they will either drag their feet as long as possible on converting to coal or opt for nuclear power instead. It is difficult to see how coal usage could be increased as much as Carter wants without the scrubbers, unless clean-air laws are relaxed-and that, of course, would bring the environmentalist lobby out in full...
...take grandma grandma nonono I won't list any sales at department or leather stores this week because this thing is taking longer than I thought it would and after all this is only a college paper an extracurricular activity or is it just a bad dream I'll opt for two of the latter on cissel or is it sissel bubby I can't really believe it but the Ramones are back on tax day and the next day at Salisbury Beach wherever that is follow the shore line I suppose and what did you do during...