Word: opt
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...main reasons: student autonomy and student control. On the one hand, students can choose not to pay the council fee, and they can, through exercise of that option, voice any discontent they may feel about the way those funds are distributed. On the other hand, with the freedom to opt out of paying the fee at all comes the freedom of the student body, through its elected representatives, to control how the funds are to be spent. Several of the other processes I have mentioned include significant student input, but ultimately are under institutional control and oversight...
Every year some 400,000 Americans undergo bypass surgery to shunt the flow of blood around blocked arteries in their heart; 500,000 other patients opt for a different procedure called angioplasty, which clears a channel through the bottlenecks with thin, inflatable balloons. Most people who have these operations get what they so desperately want--a second chance at life. But the results are usually temporary. After a few years the bypass graft or the reopened artery becomes clogged with new deposits, which often require a second round of treatment. For an estimated 1 in 10 patients, the heart becomes...
...deans opt for a hybrid name based on the "brunch" model, the choices could include "brupper," "dinfast" or "breakner." But then with such a cutting-edge invention, the name needs to more millennium-minded. Some newly coined word that captures the dash of the times, our 24/7 immediacy. Something that has just the right alignment with our own Internet-worth: "Food.edu...
Also because some students may opt to go to other area hospitals or clinics to get tested, UHS may not know about every case on campus, he said...
...unlike at the University of Wisconsin, any Harvard student can opt...