Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first choice is to "Quit." You think to yourself with pride: "I'm no quitter! I refuse to give up." The second is to "Debug," but it is cold out and all the bugs are gone for the winter so you don't click that. The last option is to see "Details" about the error that only remind you that you really are not a rocket scientist...
...news that no one will find funny. In the next few weeks, he must decide the U.S. position on an international treaty that would lower carbon-dioxide emissions in the atmosphere to reduce the threat of global warming. The economic and environmental stakes are enormous, and every option has powerful enemies...
...main problem for Clinton--and Gore, the staunch environmentalist who wants to be President--is that any effective option will probably reach directly into the pocketbooks of American voters. That's because the big steps it will take to slow the rate of warming require that the White House find ways either to discourage fuel use or to encourage greater use of environmentally friendly technology. The first can mean higher energy taxes; the second can mean more expensive machinery, although some experts argue that the switch doesn't have to cost a lot more. Last month the Department of Energy...
Although she is allowed time-and-a-half for exams, Mayer didn't exercise the option for her last two final exams and she doesn't plan to this year because she sees it as "special treatment" despite her memory problems. Currently playing intramural crew and volleyball while hard at work on her cognitive science concentration Mayer describes her interests in studying memory and memory loss as "self selecting...
...also raised questions of how the University should deal with the 1994 end of mandatory retirement, which allows a tenured faculty member to stay on the faculty as long as he or she wishes--an attractive option, say those who object to how some schools within the University treat their senior and emeriti faculty...