Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale officials insist they must keep the option of hiring more part-timers, to provide the most efficient services. Although the union has asked for a number of broad assurances that Yale will not continue to cut down on its full-time employees, the university has offered only a guarantee that it will not reduce the work-hours of current full-timers--unless there is a major change such as "reduction or discontinuation of services or a technological change." And to union members, that caveat threatens their job security...
During the next few months, Carter has the option of changing two key economic players because the Federal Reserve Chairman and Office of Management and Budget Director appointments come up for review. But even if the President decides to replace Burns or McIntyre or both, the hydra-headed style of economic policymaking is not likely to change. Says one longtime Carter associate: "We almost lost the election because we didn't have a chief of staff, and Jimmy didn't change then. He's governed like this since he was running Georgia, so don't expect...
...Friday morning, Carter met with Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Oval Office for an hour and 25 minutes. They confronted three options: go ahead with the trip, 'cancel it, or postpone it until late December or early January, before Congress reconvenes. They settled on the third option, recognizing that because of the difficulty in lining up so many heads of state, Carter might have to visit the nine nations in two separate journeys...
...innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short, West in many ways came to resemble a college more than a high school...
Instead, we hope to show that a majority (or more) of students want the option of supporting a PIRG by a dues checkoff of $3 on their term bill. Checkoff implies a choice: that choice would appear automatically, and those students who do not wish to contribute would not their term bill accordingly, and receive a reduction or rebate of $3. (The administrative costs of collection would be paid for with a small percentage of the dues...