Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elite studies, marked by letters A-Z rather than by the numbers of the more common studies. Only professors who have achieved the first plateau--those who have made it off The List--can earn a spot on the special waiting list. These faculty members have the first option on any study--the ultimate lettered ones or just more desirable normal ones--that is vacated...
Each of the University's nine faculties has the option of establishing a housing subsidy program specifically designed to meet its recruitment needs. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers a mortgage subsidy program to help senior faculty members recruited from other schools to buy houses comparable to the ones they previously owned...
Even as his faint hopes of stopping Dukakis'nomination were being snuffed out, Jackson was atwork on the next phase of his campaign. He said hehad earned "the option" of a vice presidentialoffer, vowed a floor fight at the convention ifDukakis doesn't toughen his position against SouthAfrica and pressed for changes in delegate rules...
...safe, reliable alternatives seems to keep getting shorter. Driven by fears about adverse side effects, many women scrapped first the Pill, then the intrauterine device. Large numbers found themselves forced back to a centuries-old method, the diaphragm. Last week the Food and Drug Administration added a new option by approving the marketing of another ancient birth-control device, the cervical...
Tribe said he would not comment on specific deliberations of the committee but added "it's a matter of public record that the President of the University is ultimately interested in looking at every possible option, and that includes people both inside and outside the Law School." The Law School traditionally looks to its own faculty for its dean...