Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children's initiative" received a $500 million increase in its $36 billion budget for families and children's health care, nutrition and early education. Meanwhile, under prodding from Edelman, Medicaid coverage for expectant mothers and their children was boosted in 1984, and last year Congress gave states the option of expanding Medicaid eligibility...
...addition, undergraduates who choose to live in affiliate housing will have the option of going off board entirely or purchasing partial meal contracts, Jewett said...
...Peabody Terrace option has been available to some transfer students, who are not guaranteed on-campus housing, for the past two years, said Housing Officer Lisa M. Colvin...
...Moscow last week were suggesting that Gorbachev's proposal should be called the Sakharov Plan because it contained ideas the dissident physicist put forth in a speech in mid-February (see following story). But arms-control hands with longer memories recognize the initiative by another name: the zero option. In 1981 the Reagan Administration presented just such a proposal for the elimination of all medium-range missiles from Europe. The move was an attempt to soothe peace activists nervous about the pending deployment of Pershing IIs and cruise missiles, which were intended to match the Soviet SS-20s. Given...
...removal could be a serious strategic error. To begin with, the Soviets have a considerable advantage in conventional forces in Europe. NATO relies heavily on nuclear deterrence, while the Soviets have built up more nonnuclear strength. Said a British minister last week: "We're not comfortable with zero option. It would leave us at a terrible disadvantage given the Soviet Union's overwhelming superiority in tanks, planes and of course numbers...