Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class of '98 was the first to have this option. And undergraduates seem to like the change...
...options are less risky. The price of the option is all you can lose. But options tend to be short-term vehicles, expiring within three or four months. You need a long-term strategy because manias tend to last longer than anyone expects. Compounding the problem, options on Net stocks are insanely expensive, costing double or triple what they cost on other stocks...
...Serbs are calling the bluff. NATO generals raced to Belgrade Monday to warn President Slobodan Milosevic that air strikes remain an option after Friday's massacre of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. But Sunday's renewed Serb attack on the village where 45 civilians were butchered on Friday shows Milosevic doesn't believe the West has the will...
...immediate air strike isn't an option for NATO, because that would endanger the 700 monitors introduced to the region as part of the cease-fire deal brokered by Richard Holbrooke last November. But even if the monitors were withdrawn, it's not clear that the U.S. and its allies would attack: Many Western observers believe that only ground troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm...
Still, critics contend that consumers should at least have the option of refusing bioengineered foods. The European Union recently introduced mildly restrictive labeling requirements, but no such regime exists in the U.S., Canada or the other countries with rapidly expanding fields of modified crops. Tricky ownership questions also arise: Is a bioengineered potato, or any gene sequence mapped in the lab, a patentable property? These threads are increasingly tightly coiled by nature and science, and not easily unraveled...