Word: option
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
allow juniors the option now available only to seniors of taking more than the one ungraded course per term...
Pinch the Poor. Lindsay buttressed his appeal to the Governor with what he called four budget options, a kind of fiscal edition of a Chinese menu. The most draconian assumes no restoration of aid or new city taxes; it would call for, besides the elimination of 90,000 jobs, the closing of eight city hospitals, not admitting a freshman class next fall at the City University of New York, and eliminating almost all city-sponsored cultural and recreational services. From there the mayor's options become increasingly more palatable until Option 4, a Utopian dream that has the state...
Most observers feel that a compromise will be reached between Option 3, the "ground zero" no-change budget, and the fairly nightmarish Option 2. This option would see 50,000 jobs cut, with 12,000 hospital workers and 11,000 policemen leading the list, five hospitals and more than 20 drug-treatment centers closed, and an end to open enrollment at the City University, which exiting Chancellor Albert Bowker says would in effect close the university. The list underscores the obvious: it is the city's poor who will most feel the pinch of declining services...
...remnants, perhaps, of the play that never was. Follies took shape more than five years ago when nostalgia was a euphemism for camp. In those days it was called The Girls Upstairs, a backstage murder mystery set in melody. Producer David Merrick (Hello, Dolly!) held the first option; he loved the score, loathed the book. The project was jettisoned. One producer later, it ended in the court of Hal Prince, who agreed to produce and direct...
LESSON THREE. Fight dirty. In screaming, full-page newspaper ads and proxy mailings, Milstein's faction has accused the management of setting up a stock-option plan that became a "grab bag" for senior officers, and of using $600,000 of company funds to solicit proxies to re-elect itself. The company has retaliated with allegations that one of the challengers is a director of a firm in competition with GAP, that another bought his first 100 shares of stock only a few weeks ago, and that Milstein "has not been employed in a full-time job since December...