Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the major dilemma facing Hanoi is whether to go for a quick, immediate strike at the capital-or whether to proceed step-by-step, which would allow ARVN more time to regroup and rebuild some of its shattered divisions. Actually, Hanoi has a third option: hoping that Saigon will fall without a fight anyway. "We do not want our compatriots to die if we can obtain our objectives by other means," declared Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the Provisional Revolutionary Government's Foreign Minister...
Anna lived in a cruel and narrow society, through childhood, with Big Karl, and at Haugsetvolden. She utilized the one option she had available--to work for others, rather than for only herself. And on this alone, she established a sense of meaning in her life...
Sullivan instead exercized his legal option to choose among the three highest scoring candidates, and skipped over Lange, appointing Lt. Henry Breen who finished third on the exam, in addition to Lt. Leo Davenport, the highest scorer...
...look for lost possessions or items they have al ready junked as superfluous. Along the way, pub stops and a supporting cast of fellow grotesques help to pass the time. Characteristically, Beckett's acknowledgement of free will frames the novel's anticlimax. The two men have the option of spending the night in a moldering, deserted house or falling down from exhaustion: "Now we must choose, said Mercier. Between what? said Camier. Ruin and collapse, said Mercier...
James Ritter, an organizer of the Cambridge concert which was to be held in the Rindge Technical School's auditorium at 8 p.m., said that ticket-holders will have the option of returning their tickets or holding on to them until Quilapayun can re-schedule the concert...