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...those who either cannot or do not want to earn a high school diploma, Owen's system has a four-year Occupational Proficiency Training course. Students who are at least 14, and two or more grades behind in achievement, can opt for the O.P.T. program, but only after a written request from their parents. Besides receiving instruction in such crafts as masonry or mechanics, they are drilled in reading, spelling and arithmetic. They "graduate" with a certificate that details their job-related skills...
...Brown opted for Cambridge instead and tomorrow, Restic may very well opt for him to replace the injured Tim Davenport, who is out for the season with a fractured neck vertebra...
...teachings as well as on clarifications made by later scholars. The law differs from country to country, depending on which of the four major schools of interpretation (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafei and Hanbali) is followed. Islamic justice can be harsh in an eye-for-an-eye manner. Judges tend to opt for severity rather than leniency if there is any doubt. An American couple in Saudi Arabia caught their Pakistani houseboy stealing one day and ordered him to report to the police. They were astonished when he returned home minus one hand. It had been chopped off and the stub...
...week since April, with the employees taking off at noon every Friday and making up for the lost production by working an extra 45 minutes on other days. In Florida, the state department of transportation is now allowing some of its 10,000 employees to opt, if they wish, for a four-day week of ten-hour days...
...report. But the addition of "Foreign Languages and Cultures" in place of "Non-Western Civilization" effectively eliminates Rosovsky's hopes for everyone learning about Third World or Socialist systems. The Faculty's resolution to try to tie the programs to language study further insures that students will probably opt for European offerings instead of non-western courses...