Word: option
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further flexibility, the committee suggested that M.I.T. departments offer modified sequences of their own subjects to students who do not want a full professional course. It also recommended that the present requirement of a research thesis from nearly all candidates for the bachelor's degree be made a department option...
Production has just begun on France's ten-passenger Mystere 20; Pan American has already ordered 40 of these 530-m.p.h. jets, has an option on 120 more. Pan Am will start receiving the planes in early 1965 and will sell (and sometimes lease) them in the U.S. and Canada. Clearly, Pan American's cagey President Juan Trippe, who has seldom been wrong about travel trends, believes that little jets will play a big role in businessmen's futures...
Offered a choice of Derby mounts (Shoemaker also had an option on The Scoundrel), more than one top jockey has made the mistake of picking a loser. In 1942, Eddie Arcaro chose Devil Diver over Shut Out; Shut Out won at Churchill Downs and Devil Diver finished way up the track. Like every other jockey, Shoemaker has heard that story at least a dozen times, and to test his own judgment, he flew into Lexington last week to ride Hill Rise for the first time in the Forerunner Purse, a Derby tune-up. It was not much of a race...
...actually created three cars in one." Aside from the basic $2,368 model (which is not so basic; it comes with bucket seats, padded dash, and leatherlike vinyl upholstery), anyone who wants to turn his Mustang into a little Thunderbird can load it with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend up to $3,500 by adding a European-style stiff suspension, disk brakes and a fourspeed manual transmission. Next year Ford will also...
Reviving the "folk people" of European Judaism as a basis for identification is not a "live option for most American Jews," Weisberg continued. "This is comparable to solving Harvard Square's traffic problems by going back to horse and buggy," he said...