Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pattern of giving up as little as possible as late as possible. But this apparent loosening gives only a narrow margin of leeway and actually invites scrutiny of other Redmond customs --and Gateway's too -- as other contractual restrictions close in to fill the vacuum: Gateway is making this option available only to subscribers to its Internet service, because so many other ISPs require their subscribers to use Microsoft's browser exclusively...
...days into the first round of applications for the program's money, about 30,000 schools and libraries have rushed in to claim $2 billion, far outstripping the $625 million the Federal Communications Commission has collected from the phone companies. This has left the commission with the unpalatable option of scaling back its promises or collecting more from the phone companies and their customers. And it doesn't help the commission's political predicament that the quasi-private corporation set up to administer the program was deemed illegal by the General Accounting Office, or that it was paying...
...ways of easing Suharto out of power without loss of face to him or threats to national stability. One possible scenario: calling a special session of the parliament in three months' time, when Suharto could announce that he was stepping down and a new President would be appointed. Another option being considered is for Suharto to remain as a figurehead President, while a transitional council of military and civilian officials would be set up to run the country's affairs...
...Prime Minister makes no secret of his broad intentions. On taking office, he openly declares that India will adopt the B.J.P. election manifesto's promise to "exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons" into its national defense. Indian newspapers are full of stories predicting the B.J.P. government will take the next steps...
...been raging almost four years. The U.N. "peacekeeping" force--a totally unsuitable arrangement for intervention in a full-scale war--was floundering. Through NATO, the U.S. found itself committed, apparently (and astonishingly) without President Clinton's knowledge, to dispatching 20,000 troops if called on--not an attractive option on the eve of a presidential campaign. Holbrooke's mission was to come up with a more acceptable course. His aim--nothing less than "a comprehensive peace agreement, not another weak, meaningless set of general principles that would be forgotten or ignored as soon as the conference adjourned"--was certainly ambitious...