Word: opting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court in the position of having to choose between the First Amendment, which guarantees a free press, and the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a fair trial. Asked whether he was pinning responsibility for the press coverage on the newspapers or on the court officials, Berkman did not hesitate to opt for the court officials. "There is nothing in what we propose," he said, "which would in any way inhibit the freedom of the press." Berkman suggested that the court should set some ground rules for trial coverage in order to avoid prejudicial reporting in the future...
Those who take the early tutororial do not opt to move their thesis up a year, the department will offer a number of "topically oriented" seminars...
Riesman also said that he did not think that the faculty should "opt out" of grading students because of the war. "People will be drafter anyway," he said...
...something selfishly of the tutors, for the tutors and by the tutors. They neglected the "teacherly" motivations for reforms such as the senior seminar. Fleming spoke of the tutors' trying to "unload" thesis writers into the seminars, and Handlin asserted that, all things being equal, no undergraduate would opt for the senior seminars, and some people might have to be forced into the program...
Russia is even dragging its feet on the organization of future peace-keeping missions. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko last week rejected a compromise proposal by eight small nations that would allow the Security Council's five permanent members-the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and Nationalist China-to "opt out" of paying for any peace-keeping missions they opposed rather than block the missions entirely...