Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee proposed a three-part solution. Under the recommendation, the university would use political pressure to change the military's policies toward gays and lesbians. If that failed, the university would try legal action. And as a final option, the university would sever its ties with ROTC...
Last year, the faculty senate--not meeting in full--accepted the first two recommendations, but not the third. So last spring, Elder filed another petition requesting a full faculty meeting to reconsider the third option...
Today many major law firms have a slower Mommy Track, but women who choose to switch to such "part-time" positions (as many as 40 hours a week instead of 70) generally do not have the option of picking up speed again; they are out of the race for partnership. Other fields are even less accommodating. "In academic science, the granting situation is so tight that even if you are very creative, if you divert your energy to a child, it will be extremely difficult to compete," says Lola Reid, a research biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
Unfortunately, simply treading water is no longer an option. The economy appears to be in a vicious downward spiral that requires radical action. The Heritage Foundation's Aron believes that in the coming months "Gorbachev will come to a sharp fork in the road. He will have to make a choice between a hard left or a hard right." Gorbachev and his reformist advisers know that a hard move to the right, toward a reassertion of police-state controls throughout society, would effectively end glasnost and perestroika...
...Japanese-made home entertainment system in its basic form costs around $80, with an option to buy extra features, such as a turbo joystick, phaser gun for shooting games, and get this, a "power pad"--a device which players stand upon and simulate running for track and field games...