Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Davis said in an interview last night that she was not sure whether renovating the library in its current location or moving it to Central Square was a better option...
...know which is best," she said. "I only know I have info on one option and only one option...
...issue. Friendships gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming busily...
...much about mid-1960s curriculum changes, such as that intimate relation between the old merit-based financial aid system and the mid-1960s innovation that endures as "pass/fail," the rapid disappearance of courses in geography and physical anthropology or the demise of the mandatory five-course-a-term (with option for a sixth) requirement. Few undergraduates know that solid liberal arts schools once assumed that secondary-school seniors applied with a minimum of four years, and sometimes six or more years, of foreign-language study...
...Freshman Week long ago, foreign-language placement examinations placed first-years in appropriate, required foreign-language courses. Rarely did secondary-school course-work enable a student to "test out" of a foreign-language study: doing brilliantly on the test meant either entering advanced courses or entertaining the option of starting another language from scratch. Depending on concentration, an undergraduate might find himself or herself continuing in a foreign language, or studying a related one, every term until graduation...