Word: opt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iran to punish efforts to build a nuclear arsenal there. ButTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the Clinton Administration previously has been opposed to an all-out embargo because the business likely would be diverted to firms in other countries that compete with American companies. McAllister expects President Clinton to opt for narrower restrictions. Clinton is expected to move swiftly on various options, including proposals to ban sales of computers and equipment with military applications to Iran, or toban importing oilfrom Iran for sales abroad -- a $4 billion market. Purchasing oil from Iran for sale on the U.S. market already...
...what's the answer? The thoroughly conservative Heritage Foundation would have us privatize the system altogether, allowing anyone who so desires to opt out at once and receive from the government a check for their contributions to date. They would then be obliged to invest that money, plus all future contributions that would have otherwise gone to the Social Security trust fund, into a mandatory IRA. Dan Mitchell, a Heritage analyst, calls that "a reasonable way of cutting our losses...
Unless the President succeeds in his attempt to co-opt parts of the Republican agenda, he will be left with merely peace and prosperity. The first seems almost irrelevant. Foreign policy probably won't be high on the electorate's radar unless something catastrophic happens, in which case the G.O.P. is likely to benefit more than Clinton. As an issue, the economy is harder to read. The performance numbers will probably roar along, but stagnating incomes will probably continue as well. If so, voters may turn against Clinton because, as he said in 1992, Americans are still "working harder...
...proposed changes are likely to be controversial, as many Government concentrators currently opt out of the required introductory classes...
...rooming group, the choice to live in the Quad represented a rejection of the Georgian splendor of the river houses in favor of the immense personal space of a single and the sunny comforts of a lawn big enough for many a muddy football game. Some who opt to move to the Quad do so because of what they perceive as better facilities, namely the frozen yogurt machine in Currier. "The Quad is new and spacious and not kind of old and scary like the River houses," said Chris J. Nicholson '97, an advocate of Cabot House's new public...