Word: opted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's men's figure-skating competition as a feature film in preproduction, with the team of Olympic judges as the venture's casting directors. For the role of leading man, the producers have asked for someone the world can call a champion. But whom to choose? Do they opt for a sinewy 20-year-old talent, all Baryshnikov grace and DiCaprio innocence? Or do they go with a stockily built he-man, a comparative veteran of 25, whose brash moves and manner suggest a cross between Michael Flatley and Steven Seagal...
...Midnight Croquet became an official organization with UC funding last fall. Founder Rebecca Reider '00 deems the weekly croquet session a "Competitive but friendly gathering." Though recently participation has decreased because of the weather, some students opt for croquet over "ER." The strange name of the organization comes from Reider's past. "There's this park called Party Park near my house. One night, I saw this man setting up wickets. I used to watch him play by himself. One day, I thought he couldn't see me when I fell, and when I looked up he was there...
Princeton, Yale and Stanford are right to increase aid and right to acknowledge a serious threat to the their prestige: the growing numbers of top-notch students who opt to reject their admission offers in favor of highly ranked and significantly cheaper public universities like those in Chapel Hill, Berkeley and Ann Arbor. Now is the time for Harvard to acknowledge what it has at stake and to join Princeton, Yale and Stanford in providing better financial aid packages for its students...
Harvard, as a mainstream college, seems to attract very few deaf students overall, and particularly lacking are culturally deaf students. This scarcity has been self-perpetuating, as culturally deaf students, like any minority group, seem more likely to opt for schools with a strong deaf community, shying away from schools like Harvard where they would be forced to be part of the mainstream...
...write is to experiment, to opt for the new, to test the limits of the published...