Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year only four Houses--Lowell, Kirkland, Adams and Quincy--are offering rising seniors the option of applying for such suites...
Most of the other River Houses, although originally built to include senior singles, have since decided to eliminate this housing option. The Quad Houses were designed to contain mainly one-room singles and doubles...
Collier compared Dunster House, which elminated the option last year, to Lowell House, which still offers 47 senior singles, to illustrate that Houses which are similar architecturally may have different housing policies...
...past when a player faced an owner across the bargaining table, the owner was in a position to be a rock and the player could either sign his contract or go dig rocks. "Joe DiMaggio would never have played out his option," say traditionalists. But they are wrong...
...Sure I would have been tempted to play out my option," DiMaggio told TIME last week. "After my fourth season I asked for $43,000 and General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young man, do you realize Lou Gehrig, a 16-year man, is playing for only $44,000?' I said, 'Mr. Barrow, there is only one answer to that-Mr. Gehrig is terribly underpaid.' And then there was the season I hit in 56 straight games [1941]. When I came in to talk contract, I was offered...