Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning September 1, women have been able to go to the walk-in clinic with the option of requesting gynecological, instead of just medical or surgical services. Through the shuffling of some physicians' schedules' UHS now guarantees women continuous access to a physician interested in gynecological problems...
FLOATING THE DOLLAR. Though Alan Greenspan believes that "the only viable option was to let the dollar float," he warns that if it is left unpegged for too long "trade could be stifled." Joseph Pechman says: "Strengthening the dollar is a move that is long overdue." As David Grove summarized: "The dollar has been overvalued for some years, but no one wanted to recognize that. Now the Administration wants the dollar 'devalued' enough to get a strong balance of payments position. That could come very quickly and be a big and dramatic improvement...
...with publishers and film producers. "I'm supposed to have taken $2,000,000 in my life," he said. "Everyone asks me where it's buried. Well, I haven't got a cent of it." No problem: if the book and film people pick up his option, crime may yet prove profitable...
...employees may punch in at any time between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. and leave between 3:45 p.m. and 6 p.m. They still must put in an average of 42½ hours and work five days a week, but in any month they also have the option of working ten extra hours, building up a credit they can draw on for additional free time the next month, or putting in ten fewer hours and making them up the following month...
PROVOCATION PLANS. Although the option apparently was never exercised, secret documents indicate that U.S. planners were seriously considering provoking the North Vietnamese into attacking U.S. units so that an open retaliatory air attack could be made against the North, a key escalation of the conflict. The step would be a prelude to sustained air strikes against the North. A Pentagon "Plan of Action for South Viet...