Word: opted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloc, including West Germany, Italy and Holland, is in favor of creating a new kind of money, dubbed the "cru" (for composite reserve unit), which would take its place along with the dollar and the pound in the reserves of the world's central banks. Belgium and Switzerland opt instead for merely increasing the borrowing rights that 103 nations already have with the International Monetary Fund. Other nations, including the U.S., would agree to a combination of the two plans...
...will enter political life. The others will be "politically and socially active in addition to their professions." Ansara foresees a class of lawyers and doctors motivated by social concern rather than economic values who will help organize community projects wherever they may be living. These people, others maintain, will opt for the city instead of the suburb, for their entire philosophy rests on a heightened degree of contact among social groups which only the city can provide...
Such a vote represents a sound attitude toward educational policy. The pressure for grades already distorts the educational process here, inducing many ambitious students to opt for gut courses and to treat all courses simply as obstacles on the way to a degree and a graduate school. To avoid adding to the pressure of grades, the University has in the past wisely ignored the demands of many institutions and programs which request class rank information from applicants...
...bill requires that D.S.T. commence on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday in October for all states and communities that choose to observe it. Next year, under the bill's provisions, all states will have to observe uniform D.S.T. statewide unless their legislatures opt for uniform standard time for the entire state. But as early risers know, the sun is already up before 6 a.m., tennis courts in the South have been readied for after-work play, and early gardening has begun. So why not begin D.S.T. on the last Sunday in March rather...
...three-year program. Many of them remain a fourth year to do independent study. The junior thesis-writer would also have this opportunity senior year. And just as advanced standing is limited to a select group of students, only a certain number of exceptional freshman should be allowed to opt for an early thesis. A voluntary test, posibly a long research paper, could be given at the end of the freshman year to determine which of the applicants were qualified for the accelerated program...