Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no perfect calendar. This one hasn't solved all the problems, but if given the option of the old calendar, students would stick with this one," Hall says...
Call it a case of deflated consumer attraction. Since March 1986, Ford has offered a driver-side, anticollision air bag as an $815 safety option on its Tempo and Mercury Topaz compact autos, which sell for a base price of about $9,000. Apparently the bag option has little allure for many buyers, who have bought the safety devices on only 2% of the 189,000 Tempo and Topaz cars sold since the 1987 model year began. Last week Ford tried to pump new life into its air bags by slashing the price to $295. The company hopes that will...
...alive with interruptions and immediate reactions. I found that style extremely pleasurable." The subject of arms control took up more than half of the meeting. Gorbachev repeatedly expressed his disappointment regarding France's assessment of Moscow's nuclear disarmament proposals. Chirac reiterated his government's acceptance of the zero option, which would remove medium-range missiles from Europe, but reserved judgment about Moscow's double-zero proposal, which would eliminate both medium- and shorter-range missiles, pending further consultation with Paris' West European partners...
...past five years, the number of applications for these parking spaces has been steadily increasing, Smith says. He attributed this to the fact that the Harvard lots provide 24-hour security and a guaranteed space, while parking with a Cambridge sticker or choosing the illegal option provides neither...
Another parking option is to obtain a resident parking sticker from the City of Cambridge. The stickers cost $3 and permit parking anywhere in Cambridge. To qualify for a sticker, a student must have a car registered in Massachusetts and "principally garaged in Cambridge at your residential address," says Mary Monagle of the Cambridge Department of Traffic and Parking...