Word: opt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enemies on the domestic front, including the irascible Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who toasted her last week as a "tough and courageous lady." In fact, such bipartisan appeal was a major factor in the selection of Albright and her teammates. Clinton must co-opt a skeptical Congress if he is ever to develop the national consensus essential to almost any foreign venture or protect the policymaking bureaucracy from the budget hawks. Cohen is highly regarded on both sides of the aisle as a bridge builder who can meld judicious compromises on contentious issues...
...into the policy arena. If only they could have lived another 122 years (1917) to watch Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana become the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. In 1931, Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (this was obviously not a time when a woman could opt merely to keep her own name) became the first female U.S. Senator. Frances Perkins led us into the White House when she was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman cabinet member...
...justify what they do as a glorification of immediate pleasure over conventional restraint, a familiar theme from the '60s. For Drew, smoking copious quantities of pot confers membership in the select club of "the failures," people who were dealt a good hand of money, talent and support but who opt for a path of all-but-deliberate self-destruction...
...association is voted down, workers may opt to return to Local 254 or join the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...
Similarly, there are very few law students who go to law school planning on spending their entire life in Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. Rather, a student who finds himself or herself $100,000 in debt may opt to postpone civil rights litigation, politics or legal academia in hope of attaining some financial security...