Word: opted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to opt for a school that is going to be on national television," said Irvin...
...said you can't fight city hall? For more than a decade, the drug barons of the Medellin cartel have been using murder and corruption in an attempt to cow or co-opt elected officials of this pleasant, bustling Colombian city of 2 million people and turn it into the world capital of the cocaine business. In the process, Medellin, known locally as the "city of eternal spring" for its mild mountain climate, has become the city of eternal violence. More than 3,000 people were murdered there last year, a homicide rate about five times . as high...
Improvement played a big part of Mohler's earlybasketball career. Although he also played hockeyand baseball; Mohler decided to opt for basketballon the advice of a grade-school coach...
...Minority. His performances in Iowa and New Hampshire have proven that he has won over substantial white support. His grassroots organization of Southern voters guarantees him Super Tuesday success. Since the Democratic Party is trying to overcome the factional interests that plagued it in 1984 and will probably not opt for a Black candidate, the most he can hope for is kingmaker status at the convention and support for a future run for a senatorial or gubernatorial office...
Jacoby blames the dismantling of America's public "intellectual plant" on the linked appeal of security and specialization. Instead of standing in the cold to criticize, writes Jacoby, today's young brains opt for the warm but stifling blanket of academe, where 50,000 positions in 1920 have mushroomed to 700,000, many of them offering the tenured safety of $40,000-plus salaries. On campus, he claims, innovation and creativity have been subordinated to abstruse research, cranked out to satisfy doctoral requirements or a department chairman's notions of what will advance the discipline. As one proof, the author...