Word: opting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source close to the Development Office believes that the Corporation will opt for a three-year, $225 million drive ending in 1981. He notes that '81 will be Bok's tenth year in the College presidency and Bok, this source says, has mentioned to fellow administrators that he will stay in his present post for only ten years. Although that intention is far from definite, the completion of the drive would be a fitting swan song for a departing president...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences currently sets 66 years as the retirement age for tenured faculty. At that age, Faculty members may either opt to teach two more years with a full workload or four more years with a half workload, but without further Faculty contributions to the professor's pension fund, and without further pay raises...
...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...