Word: option
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First-term City Councilor David Clem introduced two resolutions at Monday night's City Council meeting that would make rent control and eviction control in Cambridge a permanent local option...
...club has a one-year contract for the use of the stadium and is working on an option for a second year. The team will not be allowed to practice at the stadium, but will have an eight-hour block of time reserved for them on each playing date (noon until 8 p.m.) during which the team can take warm-up practice and hold the game...
...this is the case with the Cubans in Angola. Cuban Premier Castro did not publicly announce that Cubans were fighting in Angola until January 15, 1976, so it seems doubtful that Cuban individuals were able to volunteer to help the Angolans before even knowing that such an option was available to them. Furthermore, Cubans are not notoriously free to decide where they want to go to carry out their desires. Clearly, the Cubans fighting in Angola are members of the armed forces and their deployment to Angola was a decision of national policy. Perhaps as soldiers in the Cuban army...
Rosovsky said the fellowships, which will be granted for one year with the option of renewal for a second year, will be used "to recruit the best people we can find who are not on tracks to permanent appointments or whose tenure prospects are not appropriate to their talents and promise...
F.D.R. received conflicting counsel from various advisers: Scientist-Administrators Vannevar Bush and James Conant, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr, War Secretary Henry Stimson. But the President, without telling any of his aides, concluded with Winston Churchill that the second option was the wiser. The two solemnized their agreement in a secret aide-memoire of a conversation at Hyde Park in September 1944: "The suggestion that the world should be informed regarding Tube Alloys [British code for the bomb], with a view to an international agreement regarding its control and use, is not accepted." Concludes Sherwin with characteristic understatement: "The Anglo-American...