Word: opted
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...using common sense. If something doesn't look right, it probably isn't. Also, you have to make quick decisions on your feet. It's definitely a job where you learn everyday from the officers who have been doing it their whole lives." On a typical day, Reyes will opt for the 4 to midnight shift. During the summer, he likes to have the days to himself. As the light wanes, he gets in his cruiser and watches Harvard hit the books. "I love my job here," he says. "But, I also want to keep my options open. Eventually...
Besim Kadriu still keeps that photo in his wallet as a lucky charm, for while some people would opt for death rather than disfigurement, he considers himself a fortunate man. For one thing, a couple of centimeters farther back and that Serb bullet would have hit his brain. For another, he was reunited with Valbona and survived for three months in the care of relatives. He was still avoiding mirrors when the Kosovo Force peacekeepers arrived. But luckiest of all--and thanks to the efforts of an American doctor and a British military medic with a bag full of electronic...
What happened to the passion, the fun, the work involved in finding a life mate? The foolishness, the excitement, the fear and longing? Apparently this couple didn't feel that those little perks were necessary to their peculiar version of happy ever after. Why did he opt to select a wife from among a group of women who agreed to a public competition--including a mortifying swimsuit parade? Ego? Desperation? Maybe Rockwell simply has a wacky sense of humor. Surely there's a punch line yet to come...
...even if FAS had known that it could use the building earlier, she said it is unclear whether or not it would opt to do so, in part because it would still need to pay off the remaining debt...
...strength of the two-party system and the bane of third parties is this: the big parties co-opt the little parties' ideas. REAGAN adopted the anti-Beltway resentments of populist GEORGE WALLACE as surely as F.D.R. waylaid the assaults of socialist NORMAN THOMAS. This year, reform belongs not to Reform but to McCain, whom Ventura might even endorse. It certainly means less theater. And while that's less...