Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other option," Biblo said. He said continued enrollments "would mean compromising our service," because the centers do not have enough staff to handle a further increase in patients...
...hope this option is still open, but I am afraid Rabat has limited the capability of those Arab states that are ready to move or test the possibility of movement...
...Russians want to create a tougher Arab position vis-a-vis Israel because that will mean less possibility of moving toward peace. In the Arab Middle East it is well understood that the military option goes via Moscow and the political option goes via Washington. The more the situation is pushed toward the military option, the closer the Arab countries will come to Russia. I hope the U.S. understands this and continues to strengthen Israel militarily and economically; this makes the military option more difficult and brings the Arabs who have any sense back to the political option...
...ratification process continues to stumble slowly along. Certainly, a rank-and-file rejection of the contract--the first such grass-roots referendum ever in an autocratic union that has had the likes of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle as its advocates--might prod Ford to choose his option of an 80-day, back-to-work, cooling-off period under Taft-Hartley instead of beginning the complex negotiation and ratification cycle again. Whether the miners--a group of workers who, by virtue of the very interdependent nature of their dangerous job, have always exhibited solidarity to a man--would...
Finally, the black professor or administrator is caught between two groups: the faculty and administration against the black student body. He has the option of alienating one group or the other. If he supports the administration, he will be labeled an Uncle Tom; if he does not, the administration will accuse him of being partisan or militant...