Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...institution (assets: $28.6 billion) that won a bidding war with several other potential buyers, including New York City's Citicorp and San Francisco's Wells Fargo. The North Carolina bank will pay at least $210 million for a 20% stake in the bank and will have a five- year option to buy the rest from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which guarantees bank deposits and will put up most of the money for the rescue...
...arts approach is enthusiastically endorsed by teachers. Says Yevgeny Yamburg, who is both the principal and a history instructor at Moscow's Middle School No. 109: "If an engineer has never heard Tchaikovsky's music, that is terrible." In addition, teachers will for the first time be given the option to choose among texts and to diversify curriculums, which have long been dictated by the central government. "Three or four years ago, any variations in instruction methods were unthinkable," admits Vladimir Shadrikov, vice chairman of the state education committee. "Now all this has become a reality...
...those eager to stay close to the convention area, one option is Bugatti in the Omni Hotel, which offers decent, if second-rate, Italian food in a comfortable setting. Far better is Nikolai's Roof, atop the Atlanta Hilton. Despite an annoying 6:30 and 9:30 seating policy and an altogether corny menu recitation, the sparkling little supper club offers winy hot borscht, herbed rack of lamb, roasted guinea hen in a lemony olive sauce and a gently sweet banana-almond souffle. Asked why there was not more Russian food on the menu, the waiter answered, "The Czar Nikolai...
...branch at Ames, worries about the possible physiological effects of rotation. "Weightlessness is the devil we know," he says, "and we have some idea how to overcome its effects. But artificial gravity in space is a devil we don't know well." Still, he concludes, "it's certainly an option we can't reject...
...everything about Texas is big. They say the United States is a part of Texas. They describe the United States as Texas and the other 49 colonies. When Democratic nominee Gov. Michael S. Dukakis picked Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be his running mate, this gave Texans an option on two Texans: Vice-President George Bush or Bentsen...