Word: opted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deciding the case, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey Sorkow becomes the first judge in the U.S. asked to enforce a surrogate agreement. He could treat the case mainly as a contract dispute, rule that the contract is valid and award the child to the Sterns. Or he could opt to treat it basically as a custody battle; then the best interests of the child would be the guiding principle. Custody is often awarded to mothers, but since Baby M. has been living with the Sterns at the judge's order for most of the time since she was born...
More than 10,000 of the 41,000 households in Cambridge currently have working cable television, and the cable company hopes an additional 10,000 households will opt for the system...
...satirizes. This Reagan (Jim Morris) smiles incessantly; he may be befuddled but he is never cruel. That was a strategic choice by Trudeau and the show's composer, Elizabeth Swados, a theater innovator (Runaways) with whom he also created the Broadway Doonesbury. Says Trudeau: "We wanted to co-opt Reagan's ingratiating style while dispelling the illusion that he doesn't mean the meanness of his policies...
Moreover, Likud is not the most hawkish party in Israel, nor is Shamir the most extreme member of Likud. For reasons of party politics, Shamir may opt for a noisy show of ideological fervor on West Bank settlements. Indeed, already he has called for "Zionist economics" (mirroring the equally vague "Islamic economics...
With the influx of new funds, the contra arsenal is expected to improve over the next six weeks. Pentagon officials say they can provide Stinger and Redeye surface-to-air missiles to combat the Sandinistas' estimated 60 Soviet armored helicopters; the contras, however, may opt to buy cheaper, Soviet- built SA-7s on the international arms market. U.S. officials hope to persuade the contras to switch from the pressure-triggered mines they have been using to explosives that have to be detonated by remote control, thereby giving the rebels control over specific targets. "Pressure mines kill too indiscriminately," says...