Word: opted
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...daily newsletters, news updates, update letters, dating news, upletter dates, and finally, that salacious e-menage-a-trois, “third-party offers.” (One wonders where you have to go to get fourth-, fifth-, and twelfth-party offers: Swinger Download Clubs?) The “opt-out” system falsely implies that RealPlayer will be safe to your hard drives and in-boxes. And yet, with RealPlayer finally loaded and “Bootylicious” playing (albeit between strange bouts of something called “Buffering”) still the icon blinks...
...Jonathan W. Coffin, a salesman at Leavitt & Peirce, says that while women will often buy cigars for men, he sees a woman buy for herself “at most once per week,” and normally it’s an older woman. Women also tend to opt for cigarillos, which are essentially cigarettes wrapped in cigar leaves. A popular brand is John T’s Flavored Cigars—sample flavors include chocolate, rum, cherry, coconut, vanilla and cappuccino...
Lesley girls laugh at the suggestion of on-campus parties. “You don’t go to a women’s college for parties,” states McGrath. For a night on the town, students usually opt to get out of town. Of the 550 undergraduates, most choose to either party with friends at colleges in Boston, or to spend their weekends at home. For the minority who do stay on campus, Saturday nights remain low-key. “It’s always quiet when you need quiet,” says Jackie...
Unlike a traditional, narrowly defined set of health benefits, this plan lets employees spend a portion of their allotted health dollars--usually around $1,000 to $2,000 a year--as they see fit. They can spend it on the deductible of a basic indemnity policy or opt for alternative medicine; if they don't use up their allocation before the end of one year, they can roll it over to the next. At best, Stevens guessed, perhaps an adventurous 10% to 15% of workers would take the leap; in the end, though, more than three-quarters signed...
...Germany, for instance, the number of single-parent households with a man at the head has risen by 63%, with female-led households rising by 31% over the same period. In France, the number of divorces has increased fourfold since 1965, while the number of adults deciding to opt out of marriage altogether has risen by 12% since the early 1980s. In Italy, the number of divorces has increased by 30% since 1990, and fertility rates have fallen to just 1.2 children per woman - down from 1.7 children per woman more than 20 years...