Word: optionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar has picked up some $400,000 in new business, increased his number of sponsors to nine. To show its appreciation, NBC last week exercised its option to keep Paar at work on Tonight until next March. Says Paar: "I'm the guy at the office party who nobody noticed all year and suddenly the cute girls are talking...
Besides stimulating the well prepared student, the option of skipping a general education course would make advanced placement itself more appealing to the incoming freshman and the Harvard prospect in secondary school. At present, unless the student has three advanced placement courses, his credits do him little good. He can, supposedly, take courses not regularly open to freshmen, but with a glib tongue he can talk his way into many upperclass courses anyway. Advanced placement also makes later course reduction easier, according to the Advanced Standing Office; however, the qualified and responsible student can often get course reduction without previous...
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...likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed to a new five-year contract, and that the Opera was reserving the option of signing him for two years after that...
...demonstrated how tight the tight-money market is getting. To refinance $24 billion worth of maturing securities bearing coupons ranging between 1½% and 3¼%, the Treasury had to offer investors a choice of three separate issues, one at 3⅜%, the other two at 4%, with an option permitting buyers of one four-year issue to cash in their notes two years hence if rates meanwhile have gone still higher. The new interest rates were the highest in 24 years, but as a Treasury official said, "the lowest at which we could sell these securities...