Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professional day-care center is the fastest-growing option for working parents. There are an estimated 60,000 around the country, about half nonprofit and half operated as businesses. Costs vary widely, from $40 a week to as much as $120. In the best centers, children are cared for by dedicated professionals. At the nonprofit Empire State center in Farmingdale, N.Y., teachers make up lesson plans even for infants. Empire, which receives partial funding from New York State, keeps parents closely informed of their child's development. "If a child takes a first step, develops in the least, that parent...
...Soviet MiGs fly toward Pakistan's border frequently but cross the border less often. Even then, they typically spend only a few minutes in Pakistani airspace. Says a retired Pakistani officer: "Our air force cannot scramble its F-16s every time Afghan warplanes head east." The Afghans have the option of relying more on terror bombing, or on cross-border shelling, which alone has caused several deaths in recent weeks and forced 14,000 Pakistanis to flee from the border area...
...leadership in the Defense Ministry could assume a vital role in Mikhail Gorbachev' s campaign of perestroika (economic restructuring). -- With West Germany' s endorsement of the "double- zero" nuclear option, attention turns to the balance of conventional forces in Europe. -- Britain winds up a slick, "Americanized" election campaign. -- South Korea' s Chun chooses his successor...
However, some North House rooms may not be done until November, Jewett says. About 20 North House students will therefore be temporarily housed in 29 Garden St. apartments, he says, and they will be given the option of staying in the apartments through the first semester if it is inconvenient for them to move...
...Boston Police Department order statesthat officers have the option of wearing thesegarments when handling persons are under thesuspicion or who are known to have infectiousdiseases, such as hepatitus B, meningitus or AIDS,said Detective John F. Gillestie, of the Bostonpolice department...