Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Similarly, King Hussein's decision last July to curtail Jordan's role in the West Bank removes for the near future the option of letting Amman act as a reluctant surrogate for the Palestinians...
...Child Care Policy Group is committed to working with Dean of the Kennedy School Graham T. Allison as he searches for a way to fund the K-School child care program. As the Dean's Executive Assistant noted, merging with another school's child care center is one option. Given the fact that all the current child care centers maintain extensive waiting lists, we have some concern that this option would aid our parents at the expense of others...
This rescue, as it turns out, was premature, as Pendleton wasn't fated to die for another 60 years. Before the snafu comes to light, however, his body has all too promptly been cremated. The heavenly officials are left no other choice but to offer Joe the option of taking someone else's body, and he chooses that of a millionaire banker whose wife and her lover have just drowned the genuine item in a bathtub...
...cost and sacrifice to themselves and their family. Others who feel uninspired by the structure of formal schooling may choose not to continue their education, feeling that they would gain no intellectual benefit from it. Since college education is increasingly becoming a pre-professional venture, those who decline the option are increasingly being forced into undesirable levels of a economically stratified society...
...case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, involves a Missouri statute that states that life begins at conception and that no public funds can be used to perform an abortion or to counsel women about this option. The statute was originally drafted in 1985 with an eye toward reversing Roe v. Wade. "We hoped all along this law would get up before the U.S. Supreme Court," says Samuel Lee of Missouri Citizens for Life. "We think this is the right time...