Word: optioned
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...considering several proposals from schools with established foreign study, programs. The Stanford University program, one of the country's largest, is "only one option," Brown said...
What astonishes me about the decision by the current Expos director to abolish the fiction-writing option is its wrong-headedness in going after the song-birds with a shotgun. I don't refer to the teachers, but to those students how come to the college with an ability to write and also a need--under proven, rigorous supervision--to try their voices at something other than "the expository essay...
...Military Option. The thorniest problem of all is how the U.S. should use its military power. Tahtinen advocated a kind of presence at one remove: U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia and possibly other friendly nations to expand their own airfields and naval facilities. By doing that, he says, "you are making the Saudis feel we are not going to let them down." The implication, Tahtinen noted, would be that "we would be willing to utilize those facilities in time of crisis if invited to do so. At least that gives us a potential...
...interference with them, nobody has anything to worry about; the increased presence of the U.S. has nothing to do with the internal affairs of other people. Everybody would read this statement and know damn well that if something occurred the military force was at least there as an option. I think we need to create options of power...
Richard Marius, director of Expository Writing, canceled Expository Writing 13, the Expos fiction option, citing his concern that freshmen are not learning how to write expository prose in fiction classes...