Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other topic was the moral obligation to prevent human suffering, but popular wisdom definitely supported a "pro-organ selling" stance as the easiest thesis option...
...really surprised," he recalls, and he continues to be very quick in deflecting the honor to his team-mates. "The Multiflex just focuses on the quarterback a lot, running the option or throwing over 60 percent of the time. I mean, I'm happy for it, but everyone around me just made me look so much better than I might have been...
...slaughter of their co-religionists in Bosnia, that the U.S. could come to their aid, and at the same time to reduce pressure on the Pentagon to get more involved in Bosnia. In any case, at a National Security Council meeting the day before Thanksgiving, aides laid three options before Bush: the first was an expanded peacekeeping operation, with about 3,500 American troops joining the Pakistanis participating only in a supporting role. A second was an expanded peacemaking operation (distinguished from peacekeeping because in some circumstances the troops could shoot first); the U.S. would supply airlift and other support...
...that sounded uncomfortably close to the situation of East-West polarity that existed in the bad old days. "That was clearly the result of the Russian generals' pressure," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They were furious, and Yeltsin had no option but to eat his words...
...season on Americans" if "aggressors, thugs and terrorists . . . conclude that the best way to get us to change our policies is to kill our people." Which means what? A Defense Department official says hunting down General Aidid, the warlord responsible for targeting America's soldiers, is "definitely still an option." But the State Department insists that the increased U.S. troop presence is merely meant to protect the forces already there, and Clinton has signaled a willingness to negotiate rather than kill Aidid. "We have no interest in denying anybody access to playing a role in Somalia's political future...