Word: opted
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...sense of looming crisis that had once driven the issue, and rendered the option of a U.S. military strike to destroy Iranian facilities highly improbable. (It is acknowledged, however, that Iran's current nuclear activities would put such capability within easy reach if the leadership in Tehran should opt to pursue such weapons...
...Times, the recruiting push orchestrated by Harvard’s new basketball coach Tommy Amaker has raised red flags over the potential bending of recruiting rules and admissions standards. And so, President Faust, in your input toward selecting Orleans’s successor, we urge you to opt not for a candidate seeking to transform the Ivy League into some pale imitation of the Big Ten. We urge you, rather, to support an candidate who respects the role of athletics in the context of the greater college experience. While we take pride in the accomplishments of our classmates...
...name” artist like Third Eye Blind or spending that same amount of money on several smaller venues. If the College can’t afford a superstar (read: Ludacris), then perhaps it would be better to stop shooting for one-act shows and opt for less famous but more interesting artists. Last spring’s Mates of State concert in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was well-attended and fun, proving that even Harvard students are capable of appreciating good music in an intimate setting. Either way, the minute fraction of the student body...
...would an authorchoose a book title that conjures up such a noxious image? Because that's how annoyed Godin is with corporate America's attempt to co-opt Web-based selling, via sites like YouTube and MySpace, and permission marketing (that's the sundae) for their stodgy businesses (the meatball). "It's not an accident that almost all the brands, products, and careers that have succeeded with New Marketing are brand-new and fresh," writes Godin. "It insists on a reinvention of the entire organization and the products it creates...
...other university do—to prevent future tragedies like this one? In NIU’s time of mourning and questioning, our thoughts are with the university and the families and friends of those killed or wounded in the massacre. Reassured by the Harvard’s opt-in emergency text-message alert system and the presence of Harvard police, it is easy to forget that every campus—including our own—is vulnerable to attack. Kazmierczak’s rampage was not a result of failing campus security at NIU. On the contrary, officers responded...