Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both Cambridge and Boston reportedly offered this option to Genzyme last December to win the $75 million project. But Boston proposed the better package...
...their generation, who find themselves overwhelmed by the yearning for a baby. In the past few years, they have come to see life without a child like the world beyond the Hudson River in the famous Saul Steinberg poster about New York City. It hardly exists. Adoption is an option, of course, but that is not the way of some baby boomers. They want happiness now -- on their own terms -- and if they have to steal from the next generation to have it, they will...
...home districts or the way their state voted. As Berman sees it, Perot could benefit if Bill Clinton fares poorly in the popular vote. "A lot of members," Berman says, "might prefer this diamond in the rough to four more years of gridlock with Bush." To some legislators, every option could taste like political hemlock. Ducking the decision equals cowardice. Backing a candidate unpopular at home risks constituents' wrath. Crossing party lines imperils any politician's future in public office...
...computer also brings benefits not offered by ordinary books: a backlit screen that permits reading in a darkened bedroom without disturbing a spouse, the option of enlarging the type to reduce eyestrain, the ability to copy passages onto a "notebook" page, and a search feature that displays occurrences of any chosen word, name or phrase. This last option could prove handy for, say, recalling the identity of an obscure Dostoyevsky character who suddenly reappears after 100 pages...
...because its court calendar was too crowded. The prosecution pushed for a location in the San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda County, home to Oakland, where the population, 15% African American, would be a near reflection of Los Angeles, which is 10% black. But Weisberg also rejected that option, citing the cost and inconvenience for all sides of a venue 387 miles from...