Word: option
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...second reason Epps cited is last Spring's "Cambodia Option." "Students have too many credits and passes to compete in graduate schools and professional schools." Epps explained, addingthat there has also been a fall-off in the number of seniors requesting double independent studies in the second semester...
Cato, a literal-minded constitutionalist, lets fly with oratorical grapeshot: "If New Publius is saying that once the Federal Government determines that a problem-any problem-exists and decides that something should be done about it, the States have the first option to take action and if they refuse the Federal Government may rightly act on its own-if this be his argument, then not only is it objectionable, it is revolutionary. Power implies the right to say No and make it stick, it includes the right of a State to decide for itself whether a 'problem' exists...
...that the Nixon Administration is involved simply in problem solving, that it is fatuous to surround such programs with a philosophical explanation, for it is basic to their philosophy that the programs would be vulnerable. Cato denies that he is advocating a retreat into the past. "There is another option," he writes, "principled convenience." By that he means, vaguely, being chary of enforcing the federal will too strongly. The unanswered question is: Whose principles? Whose convenience...
...than the Christian traditionalists. In an era of stress and uncertainty, those who stand and serve in obedience to the Holy See may ultimately demonstrate more wisdom than those who are challenging it. Despite the clamor for change on celibacy, there is no guarantee that marriage will become an option for priests of the future. Despite the promise of the Immaculate Heart experiment, there is no guarantee that it will be the model for future Christian communities. The modern ecclesiastical rebel seems to want instant change?and indeed, change is necessary and inevitable. The historical way of the Catholic Church...
...University refused to lease apartments in the area on which the AHC held an option. There were conflicting explanations of why this policy existed. At the beginning of January, Shopard Brown, vice president of Hunneman and Co., Harvard's realtor, said "We have been holding for eventual demolition and construction of the Affiliated Hospital." One week later, Med School administrators said that apartments in this zone remained unrented because the tenants' association had not provided the University with relocation plans for prospective rentees of these apartments...