Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tacky deal as "a misleading scheme designed to bilk the public" and "gross commercialization." Undeterred, Investor J.D. Clements of Americus, Ga., boasted that he and his associates could make as much as $15 million in the event that all the land is bought. The group also has an option on another ten acres next to the Carter warehouse. Moreover, Clements said, Mrs. Spann stands to "get a percentage of everything we sell over the original half acre." It was a disagreeable bit of business for Jimmy, but hardly more than a tiny speck of mud on the wheels...
...just a case history we watch out of morbid curiosity; it is meant to tell us something about ourselves. People less repressed than Jenny are subject to similar, less easily explicable feelings of arid alienation and despair. The character of Jenny is too idiosyncratic, and one has the option of dismissing her. Bergman forces us into excruciatingly close contact with his character, but, he leaves us a loophole by means of which we can evade the larger implications of his film...
David Reisman '31, Ford II Professor of Social Science and member of the Gen Ed committee, said yesterday the committee is aware of grade pressure on students, but added he believes "the answer to that is what does exist--the pass-fail option...
...opportunity to dispell any misconceptions they might have formed about the House. This paternalistic attitude assumes that freshmen are not capable of rationally deciding whether or not they want to live in a particular House until they actually live there, and that therefore, they should not be given the option of arranging a switch with someone assigned to another House, even though that switch would leave both parties at least slightly happier than they are at present. The result is a situation where no attempt is made to minimize discontent and every attempt is made to thwart the student...
...sensationalist streak) by labelling as an "abortion fund" an RUS medical emergency loan fund which could also be drawn upon by a Radcliffe student choosing to bear her child. The fact that so few women choose this difficult alternative reflects the lack of encouragement and practical support for this option among counselors, and in society at large...