Word: opt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Missouri doctors' findings are sure to fuel the controversy surrounding a question that should have been answered long ago: What is the safest position in which to put a newborn down to sleep? Pediatricians in some European countries recommend placing infants on their side, while most American doctors still opt for the abdomen. Kemp's advice to parents: "Don't put your baby in a position where something soft can cover its face...
B.C.C.I.'s banking practice throughout the world was to co-opt government officials and influential businessmen with bribes, contributions and stakes in lucrative but dubious deals. Agents now sifting through B.C.C.I. records are learning that America was no exception...
...that the Congress Party will benefit from a large sympathy vote. An alternative theory is that Indians, aghast at the party's desperate flounderings, will opt in large numbers for the better-organized but politically ominous B.J.P. The outcome in either case would be an ironic footnote to the history of an illustrious clan: its latter-day stamp on public life would have come from an act of great violence...
...graduate with honors. These are by no means lightweight concentrations--they simply have other strict requirements. If English and Government want to cut down on the number of thesis writers, it should make the thesis optional, and institute a set of rigorous distribution requirements for honors candidates who opt not to write one. This would cut down the number of students who write theses merely to get honors, while allowing those students who truly want to write theses...
...steadily worsening national crisis has been pushing President Mikhail Gorbachev toward a choice between massive repression and a negotiated compromise with the dissident forces. Since his sharp turn toward toughness and the conservatives last year, he seemed as likely to opt for the iron fist as for the bargaining table. In a dramatic agreement last week he signaled that compromise is the course he would prefer...