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Word: optional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard's going for it on 4th and 2 from the 3-yard line. O'Hagan runs the option, but doesn't use the option to Jenkins and gets taken down easily, turnover on downs...

Author: By Crimson staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD AT DARTMOUTH (11/1) | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

After a while, that little icon becomes less an option than a command. Refresh! Refresh! Refresh! You hit the button, take a big info swig and are left thirstier than you were before. It's the pause that doesn't refresh and the refresh that never pauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '08: The Media's 24-Minute News Cycle | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Grossman responded by saying that “No president takes any option off the table,” He spoke of Obama’s focus on using “every tool of diplomacy” when dealing with hostile nations. “You negotiate peace with enemies, not friends...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campaign Advisers Stress Israel's Security | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...student with a disability. Case law has dictated that, if an administrator or school decides that the public school is incapable of doing so, then the student may enroll in a more suitable private school at the expense of the government. The current problem is that this option is entirely under-funded; the federal government was originally set to pay 40 percent of the cost but currently only pays 17 percent. The onus then falls on individual schools and states to meet rising costs of education in a time when exponentially more students are being diagnosed with special needs.Palin promised...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Crucial Needs | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...percentage points closer than the polls, putting McCain theoretically within striking distance in the past week. "It's do or die - this is his last stand, because he's got no other place to go ... This is a forced choice. This is not an option," said pollster and political analyst G. Terry Madonna of Franklin & Marshall College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Thinks He Can Win Pennsylvania | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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