Word: opt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the University could either opt for a good team or stringent academic standards, with the AI it is left with neither. What it is able to do is have something that it can show to both sides and pretend to give them each what they want...
...ETHICAL DILEMMA POSED BY REBOOTING a target country's banking system: If I had a choice between electronically wiping out a retiree's life savings through infowar and taking his grandchild's life on the battlefield, I would opt for the electronic Black Friday. GLENN A. TOLLE Fort Hood, Texas AOL: G Tolle...
Forcing prisoners to do hard--the hardest--labor is not an action we generally associate with today's American penal system. Soviet prisons in Siberia and German labor camps during World War II come to mind much more quickly. In most American prisons, convicts can opt to work various jobs for small wages. It has been many years since Robert Eliot Burns uncovered the horrors of chain gangs in Georgia: long lines of men chained together, endless hours in the unbearable sun and whippings for workers who did not satisfy supervisors...
Parents need as much guidance as their kids do. Says UCLA psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield: "Parents tend to opt out after Sesame Street. They don't research what the good programs are." Notes Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "For children, television is a window to the world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans...
Proof of the effectiveness of this system already exists, since some departmental science courses can substitute for Cores. Many students opt out of Science a and B in favor of biology, physics or chemistry. The fact is that many science Cores could not survive as departmental courses. We must ask ourselves why these courses, unworthy of regular curricula , exist...