Word: opt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview yesterday, Margulies said she has no way of controlling which or how many employees will opt to leave but hopes involuntary layoffs will not be needed...
Owing mostly to mammography, the number of women diagnosed with tiny, noninvasive tumors in the breast's milk duct has quadrupled since 1983. As many of these tumors never spread dangerously beyond the duct, researchers are concerned that women who opt for a MASTECTOMY may be undergoing unnecessarily radical surgery...
...fixing" Social Security by permitting stock investments would be less politically painful than alternatives like means testing. So it's hardly surprising that in February, Dole spoke of the "possibility," of "something that lets people, say, below 45, maybe opt out of Social Security. But it won't be easy...
...choice position represents the woman's right to opt whether to carry her baby to term. Perhaps she didn't intend to get pregnant in the first place--should the unrequested pregnancy burden her for her lifetime? Rape violates the agency of the woman; she should not be required to keep alive something that she is attached to, but is completely foreign...
...South Carolina he nearly took the paint off the walls with his mount-'em-up speech. He promises not what he will do as President, but what "we" will do--shut down the border, get out of world organizations, impose tariffs. The result is a subtle but powerful co-opt of the listener. Dole, by comparison, still talks about that guy Bob Dole, as if he were just a stand-in for the real candidate...