Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take advantage of a new "Fly-By" lunch program in Loker Commons. Students are allowed to fill a bag with five items among a selection of sandwiches, chips, fruits, drinks and desserts--all part of the regular board program. "It's great that so many students are utilizing this option," said Ted A. Mayer, director of dining services says, as lines stretch out the door...
...choice to defer--postponing graduate or professional school in favor of a short-term commitment--was an attractive option for many seniors. With the pressures of the "real world" looming, some chose to defer, while others have decided to leap directly into their long-term careers...
Before even arriving at Harvard, many studentsalready familiarized themselves with the deferralprocess. Every admissions letter includes a clauseoffering the option, and the Dean of Admissionsand Financial Aid himself calls deferral a"wonderful idea...
...Even Microsoft, famed for its stock-option millionaires, is losing talent to Internet easy money. Yesterday the Seattle Times reported that the company's head of MSN Access, John Ludwig, is taking an extended leave of absence. It's not clear that he's headed for a Net newcomer, but that's exactly what others before him have done. Last summer Peter Neupert, one of Microsoft's biggest new media advocates, left to run Drugstore.com, a site now backed by Amazon. MORE...
Epps--who attended the meetings where administrators decided to use police to storm University Hall and eject the protestors--says that while that choice cast a shadow over relations between students and administrators for years to come, many University officials saw it as their only option...