Word: opt
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...away talented minority students with scholarships. Some educators speculate that the real problem may be that in many impoverished schools even the top graduates are unable to afford the relatively low tuition and board at the Texas campuses involved in the plan. Also, many eligible high school grads may opt not to apply out of fear the work might be too difficult...
...witness, Hale, and his own likely future benefactor, Scaife, who is partially funding two Pepperdine University deanships that Starr is supposed to settle into after Whitewater. If Justice handles the investigation, Reno could appear to be trying to undercut Starr's probe of her boss, the President. She may opt instead to ask a federal judge to direct a probe into the crucial question: If Hale is the key to Whitewater, has somebody been turning...
...codification of proposals that will be put to a referendum in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, tentatively scheduled for May 22. "The issue is now less whether the parties accept the proposals, but whether the voters accept them," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Parties that opt for opposition after studying the proposals would have to persuade the electorate to vote against the deal. The brokers of today's proposals are hoping that there's sufficient moderate consensus among voters in both Northern Ireland and the Republic to isolate the rejectionists on both sides...
Harvard has signed an agreement opt sell its Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) at the Longwood Campus in Boston to Commonwealth Energy System, based in Cambridge, for $147 million...
...sneakers he would ordinarily wear nowhere but the MAC. Oh, but how could Dartboard forget? The most important part of the image--the scruffy beard. As thesis deadlines loom ever closer, senior men have become increasingly hairy. Styles have reverted to the pre-Peter the Great era, as men opt to type rather than shave...