Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...model for student action. His recent effort to solicit student input is an important and symbolic gesture acknowledging students' concerns and intelligence. But given the increasing risk of liability suits and the questionable morality of letting a university serve as a haven for illegal drinking, Harvard has no option but to ban underage drinking. There are several things to be done...
...most productive economics in the world. Obviously, the group that would suffer most in such a confrontation is the white establishment--whites stand to lose their wealth, their country, and very possibly their lives. And yet, it is the white government that is giving Black South Africans no option but to engage in violent resistance...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese wanted Abbas badly. Meese refused to rule out kidnaping as a means of bringing the fugitive Palestinian to justice. The only limitation on U.S. action that Meese acknowledged was "respect for the sovereignty of other nations." That still left Washington the option of taking action in international waters or, once again, in international airspace if Abbas should ever be found there. Said a U.S. intelligence official: "The world is getting very small for Abbas. His days as a free terrorist are numbered...
Illiterate youths will once again be forced to turn to the Army because social programs will not accept them. Middle class and rich kids will once again have the option to avoid military service by deferring to go to law or medical school and then using those skills in an appropriate civil service...
Starting next year, Harvard juniors will have the option to spend their junior year studying at either Oxford or Cambridge Universities as part of the new Junior Year Abroad Program...