Word: opted
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...extravagant expenditures by candidates and committees. I have introduced a bill providing for public matching funds in general elections for U.S. Senators. The plan is based on small contributions from a broad spectrum of individual contributors. It also places a limit on the amount of money candidates who opt for public financing can spend...
Sixty-two percent of court-referred CHINS cases opt for mediation and thus are diverted into the Project, which also services a very small number of cases referred directly by schools, other social service agencies, and the Department of Social Services...
...damage. Although passing for only 65 yards, the Crimson quarterback ran for 89 yards on the day. And tomorrow Cuccia could serve the Harvard offense in another capacity. As a sophomore, Cuccia led the team in receptions at split end, a position he might resume should Coach Joe Restic opt to start Don Allard at quarterback...
...formality, Lois Watt says, was the way she and her husband William, now 75, "trained the children how to make motions, make amendments and so on." It was the right of each child, while president, to set the Five Rabbits' agenda. The girls, Elizabeth and Judith, would usually opt to lead family sing-alongs or recite poems. Not James, the serious middle child. "Jim," remembers his mother, "would like to make speeches." Today? "He has high ideals," she says, "and doesn't deviate an inch...
...attack on Argov powerfully reinforced hawkish elements in the Israeli government, while the resolve of Cabinet members had been hesitant to opt for a full-scale strike against P.L.O. bases in Lebanon. Said Yitzhak Moda'i, an Israeli minister without portfolio: "Prolonged restraint costs too much. We must strike at the terrorist" Indeed even before Agrov was shot, Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir had called for "complete elimination of the P.L.O. In the wake of the Argov assassination attempt, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry declared that the ten-month-old cease-fire the was being "permanently violated...