Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will suffer. The only conceivable benefit is that sophomores living in Canaday will be living in a House. But even this is a two-edged sword: many people have chosen to move out of the Quad into Canaday in order to eventually live at a River House. Now this option will no longer exist; housing conditions at the Quad will significantly worsen, and, with increased crowding at the River, it will be even harder to move down...
...policemen explained to the students that they were going to conduct a search for a bomb, and gave them the option of leaving. About half of the hundred students present left...
...deserters at large when the Ford program opened. (Interestingly, the Ford commission reported that less than one-tenth of 1 % of those who sought review deserted when their units were actually under fire). More than half (5,555) applied for and received undesirable discharges. They had the option of getting them changed to special "clemency" discharges if they completed their alternate work service. Many did not perform such work, since the distinction between the two types of discharges did not seem to them to be worth the effort. Another 660 deserters serving in military prisons were released. This leaves...
Deserters, on the other hand, are heavily black and Hispanic, poor, and less-educated. They are also younger: many were drafted at eighteen. Many applied for conscientious objector status, but found it nearly impossible to secure once inside the military. Their only option was to desert or to protest--often earning a less-than-honorable discharge for the latter...
Langmuir said he "liked the idea" of stockpiling a sufficient amount of the vaccine to inoculate every adult and only administering the vaccine to high-risk people--the old and those with respiratory diseases--but that this option was politically undesirable...