Word: option
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...headquarters, and to Airbus Industrie's offices in cities across Europe. At Lockheed, which almost went bankrupt a few years ago, partly because of long production delays and lagging sales of the TriStar, happy executives called the Pan Am order for a dozen planes, plus an option for 14 more in the mid-1980s, the "order of the century." Johnson's Bakery, near Lockheed's offices, whipped up a cake with an icing decoration of a high-flying TriStar. Nora Winant, secretary to Richard Taylor, Lockheed's chief negotiator in the sale, hung Pan Am travel...
More ominously, the production of the neutron bomb furnishes the Pentagon with the option of a tactical skirmish that could easily escalate into a full-scale strategic war. Besides increasing the nuclear threat confronting our society, deployment of the weapon will only worsen relations with the Soviet Union and make a farce of all disarmament talks. With all these adverse effects to consider, it is imperative that Carter maintain his heretofore tentative stand against U.S. production of the neutron bomb...
...lotteries, sweepstakes and shopping-center tours by a dwarf dressed to look like Misha. Will Tunney, 43, use the big bucks from the project to finance a political comeback? Flashing what has been called the second best set of teeth in politics, he declares: "I'm keeping that option open...
...decision about which package--the tuition tax credit or the student aid bill--to invest in is turning into a power struggle on Capitol Hill as both sides race to gather supporters and maneuver into position for the decisive votes. Either option means asking for the largest one-time increase in federal aid to education since 1956. Both packages call for about $1.5 billion in additional aid by 1980, which is almost half of what the federal government currently spends on higher education. Supporters of the student-aid bill say they have an advantage here, however, because they...
Because of the large commitment of time and energy by so many students in the demonstrations and meetings over the past few days, I am requesting the faculty to either move mid-term examinations to the first week after spring vacation, or to allow students the option to makeup examinations at that time and to treat in the same way any other academic requirements due in the upcoming week. Final decisions in this matter, however, must rest with individual faculty members...