Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration was not enthusiastic about the idea, and when the Internal Revenue Service offered the option last year it put the checkoff box on a form separate from the regular 1040 form; worse, it hardly publicized the option at all. The result: only 3.1% of taxpayers checked off the box, and a mere $3,993,000 was collected...
...disagree with The Crimson editorial, "Keep Sex Ratios," which states: "As long as Harvard does not have a 1 to 1 admissions policy and therefore remains a male-dominated place, women should be guaranteed the option of living somewhere that is not overwhelmingly male...
...that, Schlesinger said, the President had to be allowed to respond in kind?for example, to destroy the submarine base at Murmansk in exchange for a hypothetical initial Russian obliteration of the U.S. base at Groton, Conn. Says Schlesinger: "We cannot allow the Soviets unilaterally to obtain a counterforce option that we ourselves lack. We must have a symmetrical balancing of the strategic forces on both sides...
...disengagement plan has fundamentally affected Israeli negotiating positions by taking away the offensive option of continuing a state of war both because the big powers have closed off this course and because the Israelis "recognize that capacity to win is no longer in itself a deterrent" in the wake of increased Arab military strength, one of the members of the group said yesterday...
More Conservative. Many undergraduates are as disenchanted as their professors. At the University of Southern California, for example, only 60% of the undergraduate students take advantage of their option to be marked on a pass/fail basis. "We have students who are more conservative now," explains Boston University's Dean Blaustein. "They have had pass/fail grading in high school and grammar school, and they are tired of it. They want something to help them get to grad school...