Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be all the worse for Gore if the ultimate budget deal involves fiddling with the Consumer Price Index, an option Clinton took off the table under sharp criticism from Gephardt. The worthy policy--cutting the government's official inflation measure--would leave candidate Gore with a lot of explaining to do to the elderly facing smaller Social Security increases...
...shareholders so sore? Because, as usual, corporate America has a taste for excess, particularly in the sheer number of stock options being granted. With nearly half the Fortune 500 companies reporting, about 6% granted their CEO at least 1 million stock options last year. (An option gives the holder the right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep...
Although runners have the constant desire to stop and walk, Hurley says they know "stopping isn't really an option...
...Sections (a.k.a. "the hour of silence"). Ideally, professors would teach classes of 20 to 30 students, eliminating the need for sections. But since we all know that will never happen at this university that prides itself on research, consider the second option: Make section attendance mandatory but participation optional--thus avoiding students' talking nonsense for talking's sake. Refuse to re-hire teaching fellows with less than a 3.5 CUE Guide rating until they undergo treatment at the Bok Center. And mandate that all sections--Core too--contain 15 or fewer students. It is the only way to begin...
Business with China is risky business. Dissociation of human rights and trade means that, if Hong Kong's freedom comes under attack after 1997, the U.S. has the option of turning a blind eye. Of course, this will contradict previous American commitment to ensuring Hong Kong's international status. But can the U.S. justify inaction...