Word: opted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...develops a narrative momentum, but in the end the plot seems preordained and the characters never remotely credible. Maynard's subject is off her beaten track. Next time she might opt to stick closer to home...
...grim statistics have led most women and their doctors to opt for additional treatment beyond surgery: radiation, chemotherapy with toxic drugs, and hormonal therapy with tamoxifen pills, which block the estrogens that can stimulate tumor growth. Though millions of research dollars and hours have been poured into determining which treatments work best for which patients, the results have often been contradictory and confusing...
...these financial constraints lead the person to opt for the paid internship does this mean that he or she is working in public service for "strictly financial reasons?" Does this change if we learn that the person would have preferred the unpaid internship? Of course not. It simply shows how real constraints can influence a decision between two equally legitimate, substantial options...
...finding more and more children are going to opt for schools where they get some help," said Booker...
...better to opt for information and conjecture and the exhumation of all theories. Let a hundred flowers bloom, even if some of them are poisonous and paranoid. A culture is what it remembers, and what it knows...