Word: opted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology estimated that five undergraduates and graduates opt for sterilization a year...
...than the film's Richard Dreyfuss, and someone who could more readily be imagined preferring death to a life of immobility and dependence. Dreyfuss, by contrast, seems to bustle while flat on his back, and it is almost impossible to believe that in the end he would not opt for life, however constricted it might...
...President won, at two minutes to midnight. But has the Administration learned anything from the near fiasco? Once again, unfortunately, portents are mixed. The Administration still shows a propensity to opt for ill-considered military solutions to complex diplomatic problems. For example, the first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...
...called for only $22 billion in ill-defined "revenue enhancement" measures, TIME has learned that Regan initially instructed his aides to find ways to raise $50 billion in new revenue over the next three years. Supply-siders fear that these measures will never be passed and Congress will instead opt to erase some of the individual tax cuts. Supply-side economic theory will then never have been tested...
...that shouldn't come as any surprise. Formed to co-opt student protest, the Faculty Council succeeded admirably, even increasing its authority after student concerns shifted from communal good to individual advancement. The danger for students is that someday, they may wake up to find all their power usurped. The greater danger, for administrators, is that they may arise to find a student body angered by forays like those of the Faculty Council--and prepared to re-enact the struggles of the late 1960s against forces that today seem eerily the same...