Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new offer, a subsidiary of Stop & Shop would pay the city $1 million for the road. To ensure that the company did not use it for other purposes, the city would have the option of buying back the land if the company did not build a grocery within 10 years...
...afraid to make the two pies the same size? Probably because the option of having everybody in society earn $9,900,001 divided by 100--or $99,000 per person--seems quite reasonable...
...want randomization--I'm afraid that ifyou forced homogeneity in the houses, they wouldbecome nothing more than dormitories," Davidsonsaid. "But I don't think that modified changeswould hurt the flavor of the houses. I thinknon-ordered choice is a good option in thatsense," she said...
According to Davis, non-ordered choice wouldalso allow experimentation over the next fewyears, an option that a totally random systemwould preclude...
...social life, both campus-wide and within the houses, has inspired many students to seek alternatives. Some men join one of the nine all-male final clubs. But for most students--all women and those men who do not fit in these sexist and elitist settings--the final club option is foreclosed...