Word: optioning
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...Lifelong Republicans have vowed never to vote for him again. Iowa ranks third in the nation in percentage of people over 85 and, no doubt, in Medicare recipients, so we know what a government-run, one-payer system can do, and most of us are demanding that a public option be included. So when Grassley puts on his flannel shirt and poses for pictures on a red tractor in his campaign for re-election next year, he will face an uphill battle. Priscilla Brown, Cedar Falls, Iowa...
...agreement - think of it as a financial trade - the U.S. would buy an option to require China to lower its emissions below a certain agreed level. At the same time, Beijing would take out what amounts to an insurance policy to establish a minimum amount that Washington would pay Beijing if or when the U.S. exercised its option. The cost of Beijing's insurance policy and the cost to the U.S. of exercising its option on China's emissions levels would be set at roughly the same price...
BILL O'REILLY, Fox News commentator, arguing for the inclusion of a public option in the proposed health-care-reform bill, a measure conservatives oppose...
Telling the schools' side of the story is difficult, since privacy laws prohibit administrators from commenting on individual disciplinary cases. However, the lobby associations representing school administrators and school boards expressed their concerns to legislators about changing policies. In 2005 a bill was passed giving schools the option of considering mitigating circumstances before suspending or punishing students, but few districts opted for the change. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...Nowhere will Reid be more closely scrutinized than in his handling of the public option, which is the controversial proposal to set up a government-run plan, similar to Medicare, as an alternative to private insurers for covering the uninsured. Will he include the plan, as the HELP Committee bill did, inviting a certain effort to strike it out of the bill by amendment on the floor? Or will he offer a bill similar to the Finance Committee's, which does not contain the public option, and see an effort to add it on the floor? "Reid's not tipping...