Word: opted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...More students may apply but they may opt for deferral," he says. "This will allow an additional option, but I don't think it's going to make a big difference...
...might take this for a fairy tale in which all of the principle roles have been altered to fit women, just to prove that it can be done. That is how Roz, a brassy CEO, and her terrible twins compromise to make their bedtime stories more acceptable. "They opt for women in every role," even if this means making life for these heroines more complex or uncomfortable. For instance, when playing their own version of "The Robber Bridegroom," "they dress their Barbie dolls up [in bridal clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown them...
Somebody like Genet, I feel, is basically irrecuperable; you can't co-opt, you can't normalize, recuperate him. There's this biography and he exists in Gallimard's Ouvre Complete, all that stuff, but the truth is that people in the provinces still don't buy Genet, he'll never be taught in schools. Bourgeois women, who are most readers, can't read him or don't want to. I think it's really always going to remain like that. There's no way he's going to ever really fit in. I don't think my works...
...none of these options appeals, you can also take your chances on a computer where someone else has left a coat or a bag. However, a word to the wise: if you opt for this sneaky trick, wear protective clothing. You may get attacked from behind by a furious, foaming first-year who had been trying to print out her Expos revision when all of a sudden you hijacked her computer, to do E-MAIL, no less! She may then whack you with her bag (not that this ever happened to me, especially not last week after justice...
...drastic fall in the number of general practitioners is a further consequence of the AMA's control of medical students. As new areas of medicine open up to study, more students opt to specialize rather than to train for general medicine. Thus, the number of doctors is held roughly fixed while the number of students who actually stay with general medicine has fallen over the years. The percentage of students who enter general medicine has fallen to a record low of less than 15 percent, and general medicine is an area where the nation desperately needs more practitioners...